before
/bɪˈfoɹ/ conjunción A2En español: antes de que, antes que
- In advance of the time when. · Near-synonym: no later than· Brush your teeth before you go to bed.
- Rather or sooner than. · I'll die before I('ll) tell you anything about it.
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The painful catastrophe he had just witnessed appeared effectually to have rent away the veil which the intoxication of the evening before had raised between himself and his memory.
He must have placed it on the table before he was attacked; otherwise, of course, it would have fallen when he fell.
He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.
“A pretty silence truly!” said the old father of the bridegroom, as he carried to his lips a glass of wine of the hue and brightness of the topaz, and which had just been placed before Mercédès herself.
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