Just like we were before.

I knew her before he did.

“Before lunch,” Jack says.

He had seen it often before.

Manuel had not seen him before.

You be in town before the fight?

Manuel swung the muleta before him.

He won’t be back before five o’clock.

He had never had a towel in his mouth before.

“He was in before lunch,” the waiter answered.

How gentlemanly the boys are before the fight!

He’d been on plenty of operating-tables before.

The next morning was the last day before the fight.

Just before the Puerta del Sol he turned into a café.

“Go on,” he said, “before your number gets dirty again.”

He ate the whole plateful before he remembered the bread.

He had cut his foot very badly with an ax three days before.

Pa was down into the road and back up again before I seen a thing.

He had been that hungry before, but had not been able to satisfy it.

We’ll take a long walk before you turn in and get you good and tired.

He passed it right and left, left and right before the bull’s muzzle.

Before he went back to the front they went into the Duomo and prayed.

The priest skipped back onto the scaffolding just before the drop fell.

All that the train passed through looked as though it were before breakfast.

He had been a very great fencer, and before the war the greatest fencer in Italy.

It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before.

Before I could answer her eyes fastened with an awed expression on her little finger.

They bowed before the president, and the procession broke up into its component parts.

He had been on twice before in nocturnals and was beginning to get a following in Madrid.

Before Krebs went away to the war he had never been allowed to drive the family motor car.

On the last afternoon before he went abroad, he sat with Daisy in his arms for a long, silent time.

The meadow was wet with dew and Nick wanted to catch grasshoppers for bait before the sun dried the grass.

The doctor came up to the machine where I was sitting and said: “What did you like best to do before the war?”

Most of the men sat against the wall smoking, empty coffee-cups and liqueur-glasses before them on the tables.

He was very short with a brown face and quite drunk and he said, “After all, it has happened before like that.”

His father brought in a piece of cold chicken on a plate and a pitcher of milk and put them on the table before Nick.

Just when the sun made the water blinding in the glare before it went down, you were liable to strike a big trout anywhere in the current.

When he came back, there were large framed photographs around the wall, of all sorts of wounds before and after they had been cured by the machines.

But I kept on with my prayers and I prayed very often for John in the nights and his class was removed from active service before the October offensive.

On those nights I tried to remember everything that had ever happened to me, starting with just before I went to the war and remembering back from one thing to another.

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

Before I could reply that he was my neighbour dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.

Living in the muddy, rainy town in the winter, the major of the battalion made love to Ag, and she had never known Italians before, and finally wrote to the States that theirs had been only a boy and girl affair.

The doctor went to his office in a back room and brought a photograph which showed a hand that had been withered almost as small as the major’s, before it had taken a machine course, and after was a little larger.

She had seemed much younger, in fact, she had seemed not to have any age at all, when Elliot had married her after several weeks of making love to her, after knowing her for a long time in her tea shop before he had kissed her one evening.

Zurito felt the moment when the horse was clear and the bull could come past, and relaxed the absolute steel lock of his resistance, and the triangular steel point of the pic ripped in the bull’s hump of shoulder muscle as he tore loose to find Hernandez’s cape before his muzzle.

Then, at the end of the fifth swing, he held the cape against his hip and pivoted, so the cape swung out like a ballet dancer’s skirt and wound the bull around himself like a belt, to step clear, leaving the bull facing Zurito on the white horse, come up and planted firm, the horse facing the bull, its ears forward, its lips nervous, Zurito, his hat over his eyes, leaning forward, the long pole sticking out before and behind in a sharp angle under his right arm, held halfway down, the triangular iron point facing the bull.