Sentence examples similar to preparatory to assembly from inspiring English sources

He felt the dog calmly push up against his chest, preparatory to bucking him off.

Virtue should be cultivated through proper upbringing, preparatory to "studies" in the strict sense.

The writer is leafing through a Gazetteer of Scotland preparatory to a trip to that country.

Both symposia and gymnasia in different ways mirrored or were preparatory to warfare (see below).

This flight was the first of three preparatory to the Moon landing of Apollo 11.

I was talking to the sentries preparatory to changing the guard.

This was not just to find the play's bones, preparatory to rearranging them.

Central tore down several years ago, preparatory to moving its tracks off West Street.

It is probably preparatory to offering women other drugs to keep us "happy".

And there was no point in delivering a novel preparatory to something else.

In February 1931 the government summoned municipal elections, preparatory to the general parliamentary elections.