Sentence examples for earlier things from inspiring English sources

"There are some much earlier things," she said, waving toward the upper part of the painting.

(Not for nothing had Godwin called his novel, written a few years earlier, "Things As They Are").

I wondered whether these two earlier things happened to give me confidence for the time when the real idea came.

No one was injured, but if Mr. Cianciotta had arrived less than a minute earlier, things might have been different.

Since the Saudis and the Emiratis intervened in Yemen, nearly three years earlier, things had gone disastrously wrong.

The impression made in this section of the show is of prolix distraction, with drawings of crucifixions, images of Picassoid satyrs, and oleaginous paintings that suggest food-processor versions of earlier things.

The earlier thing, as they saw it, was more like a sweet gesture.

I guess I would just say that working those jobs served the purpose of making me understand that earlier thing about grace and money.

One of the early things she bought for the house?

You look at your early things and realise you could not write them now.

If we could have snuck out a break early, things could have gone completely different.