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UK
/bɪfˈɔː/
]
[ US /ˌbiˈfɔɹ, bɪˈfɔɹ/ ]
[ US /ˌbiˈfɔɹ, bɪˈfɔɹ/ ]
ADVERB
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at or in the front
the road ahead is foggy
we couldn't see over the heads of the people in front
with the cross of Jesus marching on before
I see the lights of a town ahead
staring straight ahead -
earlier in time; previously
I mentioned that problem earlier
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 had known her before
How To Use before In A Sentence
- Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
- Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
- Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
- Before Malfurion could ask who she meant, Tyrande brought the glaive up in a salute and murmured something in the hidden tongue of the Sisterhood. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
- When Modin scored from the right circle to make it 3-0, it looked bleak for the Devils, who rallied from one-goal deficits twice before winning Game 2 in overtime. USATODAY.com - Tampa Bay creeps closer to New Jersey with 4-3 win
- We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
- To avoid leaving the center posts in the permanent work, two rows of temporary posts were placed, as shown by Fig. 1, Plate LX, the center wall and skewback were built, and the posts were removed, as shown by Fig. 2, Plate LX, before placing the remainder of the lining. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
- Just before serving, prepare a few small cheese ravioli and place them in each bowl before you add the soup.
- The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
- There are a few formalities to be gone through before you enter a foreign country.
