Sentence examples for beforehand first from inspiring English sources

Blair couldn't even admit that his war had made the world a worse place than it was beforehand, first lambasting the "conspiracy theories" of those who think he lied, and then indulging in a piece of sci-fi alternate-history, in which the violence of the Iraq War is only delayed until the Arab Spring, as if a little story he invented could excuse the lives he snuffed out.

He drew up some rules: first, Holiday would close all three of her nightly sets with it; second, the waiters would halt all service beforehand; third, the whole room would be in darkness but for a sharp, bright spotlight on Holiday's face; fourth, there would be no encore.

Staring into his cup, he continued, "I stopped drinking for eight years as a discipline to make 'Blue Valentine.' We shot the beforehand stuff first, and my idea was that I'd have a drink when I started shooting the present-day stuff, that it would put me in the right frame of mind.

Beforehand, the first single of the album, "22 Steps" was released to Australian radio on 22 June 2007, with a physical release on 21 July.

He had it transferred to acetate beforehand and Third Man Records released it in a limited edition.

"Beforehand, a third of Democrats said they didn't yet know enough about Sanders to have an opinion on him," Andrew Prokop pointed out in a post at Vox. "Even many of those who did know about him likely hadn't been exposed to him all that much.

Developing that relationship beforehand comes second to none here as well.

Barely a minute beforehand, with the fourth and fifth balls of the penultimate over, Munaf Patel had run out Graeme Swann and then had Ravi Bopara brilliantly caught by Ravindra Jadeja on the deep midwicket boundary when four short of his first one‑day international century.

Seventh semester medical students who were briefed beforehand in the first fortnight of August 2001 carried out the study on 142 respondents, using a semi-structured questionnaire.

I had dysentery beforehand, so the first few days were hell.

As the former Leeds player and manager Eddie Gray noted beforehand, Warnock's first task will be to sort out Leeds' defensive frailties, which were apparent once again.