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Example sentences for "before reaching"

  • Before reaching Dougherty's another old round toll house is passed, the last one on the road in Pennsylvania.

  • We had expected to have to walk thirty miles that day, via Newton Abbot, before reaching Torquay; but were agreeably surprised to find we could reduce the mileage to twenty-three and a half by crossing a bridge at Teignmouth.

  • Before reaching there, however, they found the enemy fortified in their way, and there resulted hard fighting for about a week at a place called New Hope Church.

  • He would find the country so bare that he would lose his transportation and artillery before reaching Kentucky, and would meet such a force before he got through, that he could not return.

  • Before reaching it, however, we caught sight of a few natives running through some corn stubble, and galloping after them found them to be a young woman and three little girls.

  • Before reaching Bulawayo, I had heard that a Greek trader had been murdered in the Bulilima district, near the Maitengwe river, and this news was confirmed by the Rev.

  • Before reaching "Fig Tree," the coach, loaded with ammunition, had passed us on its way to Bulawayo in charge of the escort that had accompanied it from Mangwe.

  • The road is good but hilly, and for several kilometres, before reaching Saverne, winds its way among the pine forests tortuously and steeply down from the elevated divide.

  • Before reaching Reno I meet a lone Washoe Indian; he is riding a diminutive, scraggy-looking mustang.

  • At six o'clock I roll into Tereklu, having found ridable road a mile or so before reaching town.

  • Before reaching Tientsin we passed the Government storage yards and counted two hundred stacks of salt piled in the open, and more than a third of the yard had been passed before beginning the count.

  • Before reaching Hachiman we crossed a stream leading into the lake but confined between levees more than twelve feet high, and we had already passed beneath two raised viaducts after leaving Kusatsu.

  • If one wants to find the country right on the sea coast, one must get off the train before reaching Cannes.

  • In the morning, before reaching St. Raphaël, we passed an African soldier limping along the dusty road.

  • Before reaching the Hôtel Beau-Site, however, a street on the left attracted us.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before being; before breakfast; before dawn; before daybreak; before dinner; before his; before noted; before noticed; before observed; before reaching; before remarked; before returning; before said; before serving; before she; before the cock crow; before very; great reader; greatly superior; heavenly love; inferior force; more easy; other colors; proper order; room fire; too often