Before I left St Kilda, I cast a bottle adrift with a note of my own.
Before I left on this trip, I spotted a few tulips peaking through at a garden in Berkeley Square.
It made a strong impression on me, and before I left I asked my friend who had painted it.
Before I left, Reverend Graham started praying for me, as he had prayed for so many Presidents before me.
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They wanted to change a lot of things, which I actually gave my staff and crew a little time to do before I left.
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Before I left, many Australians expressed surprise that I was travelling all that way into the country to go somewhere as godforsaken as Gulargambone.
"At the end, the day before I left, she looked at me, and she told me she was really proud of me, " Kim said.
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Before I left, I started a travel blog to keep my family and friends updated, which also served as a way to take notes for the book.
Before I left town when there was still a glimmer of hope for him we went out for lunch at his favorite place, a Mexican restaurant called La Potosina.
Ms. FRANCO: I got to the point before I left for work that I literally kind of patted my chest, got a shirt, patted my, you know, thighs.
And so just before I left, Chris, her father, gave me one of her paintings, and I hung it in my private study just off the Oval Office.
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Speaking of conflicts of interest and transparency, I spent 16 very pleasant months working for AOL before I left, on the friendliest of terms, to join Forbes last October.
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It's also true that had I not seen the negative reviews before I left, I would have ended up at the place, miserable and mistrusting the site even more.
The facts remain the same as before I left.
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Before I left the Philippines to visit China in 1971, I was a student activist, just like those hunger strikers on the square, angry about social injustice and yearning for an ideal world.
And before I left for the Middle East, I directed them to conduct a thorough assessment of our economic condition, consult with members of Congress, and provide me with their recommendations about any actions we might need to take.
My work in the local community continued for several years before I left to work on the state level as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Association for Community Economic Development, served as the Co-Chair of the MidSouth Collaborative for Nonprofit Development, a Director of Programs for a faith-based nonprofit community development corporation, and as the Director of the Nonprofit Resource Center at a volunteer center.
Before Kris and I left for our trip to South America in February, I filled out an application.
She was our maid, and had been since before I was born, before my parents left our country and moved to Egypt.
Just before we left, I asked Francisca one more question: How was the drought affecting her family?
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And before they left, I gave them some homework.
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So, since I had just left Avid the week before, I could chew out the engineers back at Avid headquarters to get me a fix.
Even before we left the surgery, I could feel her edging away, the way she always did whenever there was a problem.
Which was more than anybody could say for Stan, and this was one of the reasons that my father got so angry with Marie a few days after I met Arthur, before he left for his shift at the works.
After my landlady left, I stood before the only window in my room, which faced the street.
Mr. SHANNON: I told the team, before we left the scrub turnaround meeting, what a great gift NASA could give to the nation to return the shuttle to operation on Independence Day.
In contrast, only minutes before sitting down to write this piece, I left our company meeting at Lendio.
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