Sentence examples for before we gave from inspiring English sources

That was unlike the old cowboy songs that offended everybody, unlike the old spirituals that were patently protest songs long before we gave it a name.

A good time to have raised this issue would have been before we gave them all that money, but people were really busy doing other things, like panicking, so it didn't come up.

"Before we gave -- and after we stopped giving -- we always had wonderful relationships with the members in Congress who represent our company in Missouri," said the spokeswoman, Linda Fisher, Pharmacia's vice president for government affairs.

We pursued that project for nine years before we gave up.

Last week, as my sister and I reflected on the pattern of our mothers' recent challenges we realized that these issues started many years ago before we gave them any attention or treatment.

Mr. James, behold the fashion shoot your various colleagues did with a bunch of expensive board shorts before we gave them to you as a tear-jerker of a send-off gift... See you soon, John.

We should extract all the information we can before we give him rights that American citizens are entitled to".

Let us practice democracy for 30 years before we give up".

It's flinty-faced 'where's your sack load of ID, before we give you a cent' over there.

My days of, "We'll give it another month/year/decade before we give it up, just in case …" were behind me.

"We do an awful lot of research before we give a carry permit or a permit to have a gun in your home in New York City," he said.