Sentence examples for before he undertook from inspiring English sources

He similarly advised Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, before he undertook, in his sixties, his lasting achievement: the creation of Fox News for Rupert Murdoch.

The police said that during questioning today, Mr. Takuma told them he had taken 10 times his normal dose of tranquilizers before he undertook the attack.

The group is the brainchild of Hunter and Andrea Payne, who advised Newble before he undertook his personal letter-writing initiative.

King was seen weaving in and out of traffic before he undertook Martin Beck, whom he perceived as travelling too slowly in the outer lane of the A46, the court heard.

Patrick Stewart, who is also 60, had played characters as different as Lenin and a starship captain (Jean-Luc Picard of "Star Trek: The Next Generation") before he undertook the role of Scrooge.

I want to be an actor; I don't want to play a part where they can say, 'That's Vinnie Jones playing a footballer, and so what.' " Though Mr. Jones's only acting experience had been in commercials before he undertook the cult hit "Lock, Stock," he believes that his sports career was good preparation for movie work.

Once again, Rupert was at his best with swift battlefield movements; the night before, he had undertaken a forced march and seized the summit of Edgehill, giving the Royalists a superior position.

P13's WTD was hypothetical, but in the weeks before his death he undertook all the necessary steps to be able to die quickly with the assistance of the organisation EXIT: P 13: "I immediately turned to the option of Exit [pause], because I said I'd like to have this option whatever happens.

Émile Zola's Naturalism depends on the extensive documentation that he undertook before writing each novel.

Referring to the minor male roles he undertook before becoming a Trocks ballerina, he added, "I didn't want to go into another company and do corps work where you're standing in the background waving a rose".

He took the Seraph to Gibraltar for the Allied buildup in North Africa, and before the war was over, he undertook a number of dangerous and secret missions, for which he was named an M.B.E. and decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross, the American Legion of Honor and the French Croix de Guerre.