Sentence examples for before the sniper from inspiring English sources

There had been many Iraqi civilians outside a few minutes before the sniper made his shot.

Before the sniper attacks hotel reservations were nearly back to pre-Sept.

Days before the sniper mounted the tank, a Ferguson policeman shot to death an unarmed man in the middle of the street, in the middle of the day.

Before the sniper, Ms. Jeffers let her charges play outdoors for a half hour in the morning and a half hour in the afternoon.

For years before the sniper attacks, Mr. Borgelt was repeatedly cited for failing to track sales and inventory or to properly file background checks on purchasers.

In the month before the sniper attacks that left 10 dead and terrorized the Washington area, John Muhammad and Lee Malvo are believed to have killed or wounded seven people in four states.

In fact, officers in Washington stopped the blue Caprice, ran a check on its license plates and then allowed the two men to proceed only a couple of hours before one of the sniper killings.

What I witnessed that morning didn't upset me because it was the first bloodshed I'd seen — the day before, a sniper had killed my friend Dan Malcolm, and, after five months in Iraq, our infantry battalion had lost several Marines.

PAGE C1 New Shooting in Sniper Case Officials linked the two sniper suspects to a Maryland shooting in Montgomery County 20 days before the first sniper shooting.

Chief Moose was concise, reading from a carefully prepared note of a few sentences, in pursuing an electronic cat-and-mouse game with the sniper, who once before showed an urge to contact, if not taunt, his pursuers.

The plates were checked again in Fairfax, Va., on Oct. 1, and in Silver Spring, Md., the afternoon of Oct. 2, five hours before the first sniper attack.