Sentence examples for before scraping from inspiring English sources

He briefly had his own label, taping local bands in clubs and occasionally in his own living room, before scraping together the money to buy his first studio.

My advice is to ask for a chilled jelly-nut, the young coconut whose water you sip through a straw before scraping out the soft white flesh inside.

Using oil before scraping your face is so much nicer than slathering on cream or foam, and you don't go to work with white blobs in your ear.

Not only are Les Bleus rank outsiders, but their semi-final performance against Wales - when they were outplayed by 14-man opponents before scraping a 9-8 win - has received widespread criticism.

But the pair, who won silver at the World Championships together last year, looked at home in the heats on the 300m Lee Valley White Water Centre course before scraping into the final, qualifying sixth out of six.

He applies a thick layer of paint before scraping it away with custom-designed blades.

He rubbed it on Mr. Hirshoren's head and face before carefully scraping away the lather with a straight razor.

I had never got an A for anything before, always scraping by (I also had dyslexia which wasn't diagnosed until adulthood).

(All that pain and discipline, all that bowing and scraping before the God-like Balanchine).

AND BOLSTERS A NEW LEADER A year after Kim Jong-un made his public debut as North Korea's leader-in-waiting, footage of the old party elite bowing and scraping before him have become a staple of North Korea's propagandist media, a crucial tool for the country's leader, Kim Jong-il, to elevate his son as his successor.

The problem was that America had fought a war 200 years earlier precisely to win the republican privilege of not bowing or scraping before royalty.