Sentence examples for before to explain from inspiring English sources

Or, was it a line, perfectly crafted on Sept. 10 or before, to explain this woman's obsessiveness?

Just before pie is served, Steve asks Katie, as he has many times before, to explain what courtship is.

Wankel had attended a shura, or council of local elders, a few days before, to explain the mission, and a small group of local Pashtun policemen were on hand, but the A.E.F.

Newspaper publishers and editors need as never before to explain what they are doing and why.

Ever since she had written to Isaac Evans three years before to explain that she was now cohabiting in London with the married Lewes – "Mrs Lewes" was a term of social convenience, her legal name remained Mary Ann Evans – the rigidly respectable Isaac had refused to have anything to do with her.

In fact, both said that in debate analysis on Tuesday night, some networks seemed to take greater pains than before to explain to viewers that the focus-group results bore no particular relation to the views of voters in their state or region.

Along with Yahoo and Google, it has been hauled before House and Senate subcommittees to explain its conduct.

Buckles, who was hauled before parliament to explain the company's failings before the Olympics, will give further evidence to the home affairs select committee in September.

He also called for certain judges to be brought before Congress to explain their rulings.

He has been called before parliament to explain his abrupt dismissal earlier this year of two economics ministers.

Hauled before Congress to explain the debacle, Sebelius, a former Democratic governor of Kansas, stumbled repeatedly.