Sentence examples for refrain before from inspiring English sources

You have heard this refrain before.

Some experts said they had heard Mr. Wen's refrain before.

"I know, I know," I mumbled sheepishly, for I had heard this refrain before.

"They'll have to carry me out of here in a pine box" was former Ole Miss coach Tommy Tuberville's infamous refrain before he bolted days later to Auburn (a comment that still to this day makes the Rebel faithful bristle).

"Jerusalem" opens with a gentle acoustic guitar refrain before going into a classic African inspired rhythmic vamp with its finger picked guitar lines that remind me of some of Lionel Loueke's work.

By Steve Tignor, Tennis.com NEW YORK -- For years, virtually all tennis pundits have sung the same refrain before each women's Grand Slam: "If Serena is on her game, she'll win".

There we read, "Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried: 'Cause every man to go out from me.' And there stood no [Egyptian] man with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have vowed to refrain from endorsing before a nominee is chosen, but Reid this week began openly addressing Clinton's future - in Congress, not the White House.

5. Something sweet (that you'll refrain from eating before people arrive).

Yet it appears that for some, the call to listen before speaking, to refrain from asserting immediate authority, is so unfamiliar that it feels outrageous.

On Friday, the Russian leader argued instead that all countries "should refrain from unilateral steps" before discussions on European security next summer.