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Meaning before meaning

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before

If mathx/math happens before mathy/math, mathx/math happens first and mathy/math happens second. He worked in a gas station before he became famous. Put out the fire before the house burns down. I have not been there before. She finished before me. in front of something She stood before him, looking into his eyes. until It took a few moments before I realized that she was joking.

before

(= earlier) earlier in time; previously I had known her before as I said before he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier her parents had died four years earlier I mentioned that problem earlier (= ahead, in front) at or in the front I see the lights of a town ahead the road ahead is foggy staring straight ahead we couldn't see over the heads of the people in front with the cross of Jesus marching on before

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Simple sentences

You must come back before nine o'clock.
Do you remember seeing me before?
I hope it won't be long before I hear from her.
Not having seen her before, I did not know her.
I reached the village before dark.
I had not waited long before the bus came.
It is difficult for me to get up before six.
I leave home before eight o'clock every morning.
I play the guitar before dinner.
Raise your hand before you answer.
Call me before you leave.
You should always wash your hands before meals.
You had better put out the fire before you go to bed.
There will always be things I will never learn, I don't have eternity before me!
It doesn't start before eight thirty.
It won't start before eight-thirty.
Wash before first wearing.
Don't open before the train stops.
Do not open before the train stops.
I tend to look at the pictures before reading the text.
Tell them to call me before they leave.
The day before yesterday you impressed everyone, but I already knew you.
There are 1000 movies that one must watch before dying.
I have to give back the book before Saturday.
At this rate, we're not likely to be done before the end of the week.
You told her that you had finished the work three days before.
Do you wash your hands before meals?
You should return home before it gets dark.
You should have come home before.
Your story doesn't corroborate what I've heard before.
When you speak of a pay-raise before recognition, I am inclined to think you are putting the cart before the horse.

Movie subtitles

It was just before the quarantine.
Also, we were lying before.
I thought that it would be a little while longer before I could make my move.
It's about that phone call from before.
You've killed many Elevens before anyway, haven't you?
Before Princess Cornelia arrives, we must cleanse the shame of our fellow men!
Before long, Western civilization became the world's dominant civilization.
It's easy to forget that Western civilization has declined and fallen once before.
Long before the industrial Revolution came to England, China was amazingly inventive.
In fact, before 1 400, there was a veritable alphabet of Chinese inventions.
Some scholars speculate they reached as far as northern australia, the Cape of Good Hope and greenland, and all this was years before the European Age of exploration had so much as begun.
Just before the Nephite people were wiped out, Mormon gave the plates to his son, Moroni.
I only have three days before I am resurrected, but in that time I will preach here to you in America.
But, right before they did, Jesus had. Boba Fett turn them into frogs!
Before, astronomers had used visual techniques to map the stars of the northern sky.
In March 1952, just before the new receiver was finished, I went to Kootwijk for a month and a half to calibrate our radio telescope.
So, we had to make that map before his talk.
And this map shows the combination of the Dutch results, that we saw in colour just before, and the Australian results.
The other doctors before you all died of cholera.
When the poor girl was little, Arabs killed her parents before her eyes.
You can testify before Allah that I did all I could.
I said that before, haven't I?
All equal before death.
You should have looked in the bag before you gave her the money.
Besides, I've seen it before.
Before we act, we must first talk to Nick.
Before me, it belonged to my older brother, Drago.
Before him, it belonged to my cousin, Vlad, and he even donated the bench, so, yeah, damn fucking right it belongs to me.
And the weird thing was, we'd met before.
Scott has never felt this way about a girl before.
But they're family, so she accepts Scott's situation and they get closer to one another. Everything that I said before, forget it.
Season three is going to be bloodier and sexier and sweatier than any season before.
I'm trying to catch some food, but something got to it before me, it looks like.
Before it gets too late, I think we should.
I've seen that before.
We have already trained together before-- Do you want me to kneel and beg you?
Oh. your first love? Before we consolidate teamwork, you should bear with a beating once.

News and current affairs

One successful gold investor recently explained to me that stock prices languished for a more than a decade before the Dow Jones index crossed the 1,000 mark in the early 1980's.
That is why the war's great hero, Winston Churchill, was voted out of office in the summer of 1945, even before Japan surrendered.
BEIJING - Before July 2007, most economists agreed that global imbalances were the most important threat to global growth.
This rich habitat supports remarkable biodiversity - or did before the oil companies got there - and more than 30 million local inhabitants, who depend on the local ecosystems for their health and livelihoods.
Investors in Enron waited years before discovering that something was amiss. Though sudden and vast, the change in America's fiscal stance already provides a clear inkling that something was amiss.
It will be years before the full magnitude of President Bush's deception is apparent.
And this year's elections saw a more intensive presence of party organizations at European level than ever before.
Russia's economy is more dependent on gas and oil than ever before.
We've heard that empty promise before.
Even Slobodan Milosevic had more support in Yugoslavia before his fall.
The discussions before the crisis illustrated how little had been done to repair economic fundamentals.
If the bonds were acceptable as collateral before the restructuring, surely they were safer after the restructuring, and thus equally acceptable.
The market will prove one side right before too long.
Unfortunately, conditions across the Union will likely worsen before they begin to improve.
But before this new order appears, the world may be faced with spreading disorder, if not outright chaos.
Investors in Enron waited years before discovering that something was amiss.
Terrorism must lose its legitimacy among those who have historically supported or tolerated it before it will lose its potency.
Of course, it can be argued that China's recent economic trajectory means that it is only a matter of time before the renminbi does become a match for the SDR's incumbents.
And six months after the merciless pounding of southern Lebanon, Hezbollah is as strong as it was before.
That lesson should have been absorbed and understood, not least by American strategists, long before the Taliban's fall.

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