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Come before   /kəm bɪfˈɔr/   Listen
Come before

verb
1.
Be the predecessor of.  Synonym: precede.  Antonym: succeed.






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"Come before" Quotes from Famous Books



... Flower, hotly. "It's the dearest wish of my life. I should have come before, only I thought when she didn't answer my letter that she had ...
— A Master Of Craft • W. W. Jacobs

... London people, and the other branch, and may not feel as we do down here; but I shall always say that Madam Winslow's husband's son had every right to come before her ...
— Chantry House • Charlotte M. Yonge

... was nine hundred and thirty years old, he felt in himself the word of the judge, "Thou shalt die." Then spoke Adam to the weeping Eve: "Let my sons come before me, that I may see and may bless them." They all came at their father's word, and stood before him, many hundred in number, and prayed for his life. "Who among you," said the old man, "will go to the holy mountain? Very likely ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, - Issue 564, September 1, 1832 • Various

... from the building where the National Assembly itself met. A hundred deputies perhaps were present at the first meeting. The next day the number had doubled. The aim of this society was to discuss questions which were about to come before the National Assembly. The club decided beforehand what should be the policy of its members and how they should vote; and in this way they successfully combined to counteract the schemes of the aristocratic party in the assembly. The club rapidly grew and soon admitted some who were not deputies ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson

... too," she said, "if you behave well." "And what do you call behaving well?" I asked. "What should I do; what can I do?" "Thursday night," she answered, "is Christmas Eve; the children are all to be here, and my father too; there is a present for each of them. Do you come likewise, but do not come before ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV. • Editors: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton


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