Sentence examples for before joking from inspiring English sources

PopMatters' Josh Timmermann was very critical of the overtly serious tone of the record compared to the lighthearted work the band had done before, joking that the title of "Cheer Up, Boys" "sounds like the suggestion of a concerned fan for a band he or she used to actually care about".

"We will go on to easily beat Hillary or Bernie or whoever the hell they throw up," he said, before joking about buying an Iowa farm.

As for Sir Mo, he smiled, saying: "It'd be incredible, wouldn't it?" before joking he might need to move home to accommodate his latest trophies.

And at noon Mass on Wednesday, one longtime parishioner, Helen McGrath, hugged Father Keane, before joking that perhaps she shouldn't have done that.

Fantasy, however, always makes things bigger, he added, before joking that a big wall of ice between Scotland and England "would be a great tourist attraction".

DeGeneres agreed with him, before joking that she was "shocked" Damon and Affleck weren't actually gay, adding that if he wanted to keep his relationship with Affleck secret she wouldn't say anything.

"I've been called Colin Firth and Hugh Grant's love child before," jokes Nicholas Hoult self-consciously.

Mr. Clinton, who has met the royal family before, joked to the queen that after he leaves office he wants a golf rematch with her second son, Prince Andrew, who trounced him when the two last hit the links.

"I've never been on a show that had stakes before," he joked.

We've never had a celebration like this before," Hawn joked while accepting her star, according to People magazine.

"You giggle at the jokes that we've had before, inside jokes," Morrow said at a news conference Monday.