Findings:

• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
• Before they were famous
• Most of the men were disillusioned long before they met her
• Before they were the Science Fiction Greats
• We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
• Things never were what they used to be
• the stars would weep if they knew of our existence
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• Brittle things will break before they turn
• Our hearts were hard, but they were warm
• The Stars Were Close
• To Jane: "The Keen Stars Were Twinkling"
• While they were revolting, we grew nostalgic
• Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces
• Things To Consider Before Viewing the 2009 Star Trek Movie
• What face did you have before your mother and father were born?
• The four problems of surgery, how they were overcome, and when
• Now your songs mean what they were supposed to from the beginning
• Let's Pretend They Were Red
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• They were looking for God but found religion instead
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• Ground rush
• Most men will not swim before they are able to
• Ain’t there a pen that will write before they die?
• The stars were bright that night she left me forever
• Shall I tell you stories of other stars: stars that you love, that deserve your love. Stars that do not disappoint, and disgust, and disgrace your love. Oh, I have hope they exist for your sake!
• I miss the way you were before you figured out that I'm not yours
• Of course, they were wrong
• They were getting into riot gear as we sipped our wine
• And they all just stood and stared
• Or were they chords of sun?
• I fixed my body image issues by looking at people as if they were dogs
• Treating registers as if they were variables
• I want to strangle the stars for all they promised me
• I really came to understand that they were just real people who wanted to live real lives and be treated equally as opposed to, for example, wanting to destroy us.
• They hate us because we're wonderful
• Looking as though they saw the dark before dawn every day
• Fragments of the world are falling away, and we're tripping over the holes they leave behind
• ships are safest in harbor, but they were made to sail
• they couldn’t speak at all; so used to disuse were their tongues
• They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.
• What were you before you were anything at all?
• They protect us from danger by harming us before we can harm ourselves
• How we were, before you were
• Eat your dreams, before they get cold.
• Before They Are Hanged
• Who were you, before?
• Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
• I want the stars so bright they make me breathless
• They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars
• remember who you were before you came here
• It was better before they came
• the stars were falling just for him
• What do stars do? They shine.
• If they're going up to the sun, the stars and the moon, why don't they bring the moon down for us?
• Candide and Martin Sup with Six Sharpers--Who They Were
• What if Jupiter were replaced with a red dwarf star?
• Let's run away to where the shooting stars fall and meet them when they land
• Good thing they were just typewriters
• They Were Eleven
• Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• In the dream he laughs and says, You thought they were graceful on the ground
• I was into them after they were hip
• One must trust in the law, and keep within the heart the knowledge that the law of this world is the same right and just law that governed us when we were merely stars.
• We were the young lovers before despair
• The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• and they were as flowers in a fire
• I told you they were nuts
• How to get rid of spiders before they get rid of YOU
• and they were delighted and eager to go on with tireless curiosity
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
• I could not hear the echo of my steps as I descended nor the sounds of animals, for they were hiding
• Before You Were Punk
• The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
• Don't count your chickens before they hatch
• How we were, before we were
• Did the Japanese go and sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed 'em?
• To boldly go where no man has gone before
• before common era
• before Christ
• Before the Rain
• The Island of the Day Before
• Conversation I overheard in the bookstore 5 min before end of my shift
• Before and After Science
• pearls before swine
• Before Thinking
• JeffMagnus Remembers: Everything Before Experience (a lament)
• Laugh at yourself before others do
• csh history expansion refers to the line before most csh expansions occurred
• Cybersex before it was cool
• How long must I stay in my pajamas before I turn into Howard Hughes?
• home before the leaves fall
• Chronology of communication before electricity
• best before date
• cleaning your hotel room before the maid arrives
• In order that I may know something more before I depart from life
• Vaguer than before. Slip.
• Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes
• Wei Chi, before completion
• Think before you speak
• Before Choice Disturbs
• I am but a moth before your flame
• Before Choice Disturbs Poem
• Before we dump the bodies, you guys wanna go to Hooters?
• the days before porn
• A buddha before history
• RFC 1882
• Undercover "Jesus" Surfaces Before Departure
• Early, before our hands knew what to do
• It's All Been Done Before
• Oops! I Sang This Before
• I knew before I met you just how we would end
• Running before the wind
• In his autumn before the winter comes man's last mad surge of youth
• The impending nickname shortage
• That twinge of terror that hits before you get under the covers
• Liquor before beer, you're in the clear.
• Except My Heart, Which You Bestowed Before
• Before you ask a question
• These rugs will unite this country like no other rugs have before
• If I should die before I wake
• The Scots Confession: Chapter 14
• Before Night Falls
• Quick, put your shirt back on before the cop gets here
• Thirty Sonnets: At the Tomb of Napoleon Before the Elections in America -- November, 1912
• To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the women
• The Night Before
• I dreamed of her pulse long before I took it from her
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• Service Before Self
• Galileo: A Democrat Before His Time
• Before Time Was
• A Love Before Time
• before the mast
• naked before you
• Getting a working visa in Japan
• Shake Before Using...
• We've heard it all before
• Epitaph of a Young Poet Who Died Before Having Achieved Success
• Just a word before tomorrow
• letter-writing is always before an absent addressee
• Sobering up before going to bed
• My life closed twice before its close
• The Changing Experience of African-American Children Before and After the Civil War
• color photography before color film
• Twas the night before eye surgery
• make before break
• break before make
• The Fright Before Christmas
• How to know your Christmas presents before Christmas
• question the question before you contemplate the answer
• Check yourself before you wreck yourself
• Things to consider before you call that cute girl or guy
• Drink Before the War
• It sounded good in my head before it came out of my mouth
• Life before death
• Before Jehovah's Awful Throne
• The Land Before Time
• Long Gone Before Daylight
• Pride Goeth Before a Fall
• Photography and religion
• Driving before dawn
• The night before the carnival opens
• We told you when you were hired that you would have to work on Saturday
• Before the Flood
• What if we all got jobs and got to bed before dawn?
• Before the Red Cliff Rhapsody
• A Hymn Before Battle
• Don't Leave Before the Miracle
• Eighteen seconds before sunrise
• Egypt before Nasser

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