I want to lie down." Henry was asleep almost before the words were out of his mouth.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

There was a sweetness and softness in the woman's expression that I had never seen before.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

"I'd lost a lot of championships before that year, so that was a special game."

VOA: special.2010.06.02

But her search was not easy. "I started in August before my senior year.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

I knew it -- it was the odor which always comes before a thunderstorm.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

There was an old man on the boat whom I'd never seen before.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

asked Ransie. "I was expectin' to get up there before night.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

The speaker says: Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.

VOA: special.2011.04.17

"As long as I can remember, it was animals,animals. Even before I could talk, I was watching earthworms and things, reading Doctor Doolittle books, wanting to learn the language of animals.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

"When I was talking about knowing if my business is viable or not, through a profit-and-loss model, I was like 'Wow,I didn't even know the word viable before, and now I do.'

VOA: special.2011.06.30

Here is a reading of his description of his first sight of the bats and the big cave: "I thought it was a volcano, but then,I'd never seen a volcano nor never before had I seen bats swarm, for that matter.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

I'd never named a boat before, but there was only oneI could think of, the most beautiful namein the wide world.

VOA: standard.other

"There was an extraordinary embrace of the entire city of the Olympic Games, something I have never seen on this scale before.".

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

I just thought it was most amazing sounding thing. It sounded like nothing I'd ever heard before,I guess."

VOA: standard.2010.07.01