Sentence examples for break off before from inspiring English sources

There is no doubt that when Vivienne Haigh-Wood (she later spelled it Vivien) met Eliot at Oxford in 1915, she was quick, verbal, temperamental, full of life, restless, on the rebound from a love affair that her parents managed to break off before it turned into marriage.

Symbolic perhaps of the film-makers' failure to deal seriously with her subject is a flashback in which the little Beatrix uses two pet mice to enact the genesis of her future classic The Tale of Two Bad Mice, only to break off before explaining what the story is about.

The principal cause is that segments detected by LSD repeatedly break off before reaching their actual endpoints.

To break off before the Iraqis have acquired the habits of self-government and not juself-government andonotn paper–would create greater risks of instability in the region and an even larger threat to our national security.

This loss, representing 5% of the ice shelf, is consistent with a prediction made earlier this year by glaciologist Christopher Doake's group at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge that the ice shelf is unstable and that a significant portion would break off before the end of the decade.

But she breaks off before telling us.

"Look," he says, "if an Indian author writes a story about the street or a poor man, and the book is published in Europe…" He breaks off, before continuing: "For example, [Arundhati Roy's] The God of Small Things.

Blake is a rhetorical masterpiece, all the more strange and mysterious for remaining incomplete, breaking off before its final scene.

The caller broke off before identifying himself or giving any other information.

Talks between the two companies broke off before January, and Merrill never made an offer.

Mr Wajda breaks off before 1990, when Mr Walesa was elected to a disappointing term as president.