Sentence examples for preceding things from inspiring English sources

Immediately after next Easter, West Indies will host England first in Antigua, then, for the first time, the spice island, Grenada, and finally Barbados, with a couple of short warm-up matches on St Kitts preceding things.

"The pattern of the thing precedes the thing," Nabokov said about his own Bristol index cards and Blackwing pencils.

"That kind of chatter usually precedes bad things happening".

I climbed the ladder to the booth (this sentence never precedes good things), situated my records, needles and computer, and proceeded to peer over the edge of the tower I was sure would play host to my demise.

First, he believed that knowledge of things must precede words about things.

But in the days preceding the Olympics, things changed.

For most British viewers, Louie's reputation will have long preceded the thing itself.

This clarifying use of the hyphen is especially helpful when the compound modifier precedes the thing it is describing.

The prize, as expected, went to Philip Seymour Hoforman for his brilliant portrayal of Capote, but in the months preceding the awards thing, there has been little discussion of acting styles and various approaches to character development by this year's nominees.

All these things preceded what we are doing now and a lot of things preceded Tim Armstrong being the CEO of AOL.

Mr. Shepard said "the need to write of terrible things precedes events".