Sentence examples for surname before from inspiring English sources

(Stein was her surname before she married, but she took her husband's name).

He spoke about how when the register was called he would try to say his Yoruba surname before his teacher had the chance to mangle it.

They'd fall in love, set a wedding date and then happily take up their mother-in-law's surname, skipping to the bank to merrily swap their wage slip to their wife's surname, before changing their passport, their CV, their business email, their Facebook account, in the process potentially losing hundreds of lucrative business acqauintances.

Ms. Resnik, who dropped the c in her surname before she began performing, recalled her father as having a sweet tenor — he liked to sing Italian arias and songs in Russian — but said she was unsure where or why she knew she could sing.

Taking Mingus' advice, he changed it, using his middle name as a surname, before his career reached full speed.

Presumably one of his descendants adopted it as a surname before Blackadder II, in which the title character becomes "Edmund Blackadder".

She was into the fourth of her surnames before, with "all that early stuff digested and out of the way," she settled down to write.

The main reasons for non-linkage were emigration, death, and changes in women's surnames before 1968 [14].

He was originally intended to be of Iranian descent and had the surname Hussein, before the series producers changed their minds and made him central European instead.

At the start of his football career, Nasri initially played under his mother's surname, Ben Saïd, before switching to Nasri, his father's surname, following his selection to the France under-16 team.

There was also Yuko Kavaguti, a former singles skater from Japan whose surname was Kawaguchi before it was modified after she took Russian nationality and her name was transliterated from official Russian documents.