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How to use before now in a sentence

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If I'd knocked over a liquor store that day instead of accepting John's offer, I'd have been out of prison and off parole long before now.
In a time before now all five elements existed in perfect harmony and each existed with harm to none.
I've been blue-pencilled by madmen, seriously deranged obsessives and fiends in human shape before now.
Mutterings that it was all too good to be true started long before now and those who forewarned us can take a dubious comfort from these figures.
I am frankly astonished nobody has thrown those mots justes my way before now.
The point is, I have been tempted to buy those clothes pegs before now, and I don't even have a washing line.
The spring rain that she had worshipped before now trickled down the back of her neck like the most exquisite torture.
Oh, it's not that nobody ever had a thought about images, representation, visual forms, and their communicative power before now.
They have not been in court before now for custody of the child and had reached an amicable arrangement over visiting rights.
So what had seemed darksome before now appears most perfectly lightsome to every sort of person-to the dense as well as to the discerning.
Mason was yelling louder than before now, he must have realized the danger of the rising water level as the river became more ferocious.
Next week, the place I work has its corporate performance assessment which I've blathered about plenty of times before now.
I don't think a web site has actually made me physically moan with anticipation and pleasure before now.
She said they had hoped to have had the new ambulance in service before now but the conversion had taken longer than had been expected.
In many cases, however, they have not planned for this scenario before now.
Joaquin came in for the ponderous Luis Enrique and made such an impact that one wondered how he was not preferred to the veteran Barcelona player before now.
Those who could only tie a shoelace before now lash down sails with barely a thought.
So it is surprising that America's energy revolution of the past few years has not had a serious scribe before now.
I see no reason why you can't use equally mealy cannellini beans if that is what you have, though I have used butter beans before now and good they were too.
O'Rian wasn't elevated to chair of the local authority before now.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But this disparity in their fortunes which had frightened him before now had no fears for him.
I have begun to write to you before now, but always stuck somehow, and left it to drown in a drawerful of like fiascos.
I have been advantaged thereby before now, and did not know but by speaking no truth, I might have reaped the same benefit now.
I've seen 'all-right' men like you hitting the hurry trail for the boneyard before now.
And have you not before now said, that nothing is so penetrating as the eye of a lover who has vanity?
He might have caught an outbound steamer and been well out of their clutches before now.
The Saracen's Head, which had welcomed Paoli before now, received the travellers.
I'd have had you prancing to the tune of the wedding march before now.
He will have the reward of the waster, as I have told you before now.
Yes, my dear, hours ago, and half-way to Barnstaple before now.
Others have been saved before now from calamities yet deeper than ours.
Yes, madam,' says Robin, 'I had done it before now, if the teasers here had not worried my by way of interruption.
Cowards skulk about the dead, pretending that they are fulfilling a duty, and many an army before now has been lost from this love of plunder.
You know that's true, and if the horses don't work we must starve, and I and my children have known what that is before now.
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