Sentence examples for before the sight from inspiring English sources

The night before, the sight of the building had triggered his fear of the sniper, and he had instinctively dropped to the floor of his room.

"The scripture tells how Jesus was repulsed by Lazarus's rotting flesh, how Jesus withdrew before the sight of death.

Countless innocent civilians, many of them children, have been mutilated by land mines that litter the countryside, and the camera doesn't flinch before the sight of children with stumps for limbs and doctors performing amputations on the newly injured.

After graduating from high school in Royal Oak, Mich., he studied briefly at Olivet College but soon took an assortment of jobs — selling Volkswagens and Triumphs for a dealer in Ypsilanti, working in a men's clothing store, assembling Fords — before the sight of a Jaguar XK120 inflamed his incipient car lust.

Lines of jeeps and stalls of elephants wait to whisk you into the park on safari, where the road trauma fades before the sight of massive herbivores taking mud baths in the wetlands, of storks wheeling overhead, and, if you're lucky, the thrill of black and orange stripes ghosting through the elephant grass.

It's only a matter of time before the sight of me sickens her.

In addition to the re-creations, which employed some 1,600 actors and extras, this series makes liberal use of computer-generated imagery, which, Ms. Root said, lets viewers "experience things they might only have been able to think about before," whether the sight of 400 British ships in the waters surrounding Manhattan or the building of the Statue of Liberty.

The man, whom I'd been in contact with before the sighting, told me about the encounter and his frustration at not having the necessary legal paperwork with him.

We get what we tend to look for in art: something that to some degree we haven't quite seen before, that is, the sight of a unique individual exploring his or her uniqueness to the hilt.

Before the war, the sight of United Nations arms inspectors emerging empty-handed from Iraqi arms depots suspected of harboring large stocks of biological and chemical weapons brought a typically oracular pronouncement from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Yet these words do what they can to keep before our eyes the sight of "the wretched strangers, / Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, / Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation".