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. |
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In a time before now all five elements existed in perfect harmony and each existed with harm to none. |
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I've been blue-pencilled by madmen, seriously deranged obsessives and fiends in human shape before now. |
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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. |
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I am frankly astonished nobody has thrown those mots justes my way before now. |
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The point is, I have been tempted to buy those clothes pegs before now, and I don't even have a washing line. |
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The spring rain that she had worshipped before now trickled down the back of her neck like the most exquisite torture. |
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Oh, it's not that nobody ever had a thought about images, representation, visual forms, and their communicative power before now. |
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They have not been in court before now for custody of the child and had reached an amicable arrangement over visiting rights. |
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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. |
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Mason was yelling louder than before now, he must have realized the danger of the rising water level as the river became more ferocious. |
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Next week, the place I work has its corporate performance assessment which I've blathered about plenty of times before now. |
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I don't think a web site has actually made me physically moan with anticipation and pleasure before now. |
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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. |
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In many cases, however, they have not planned for this scenario before now. |
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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. |
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Those who could only tie a shoelace before now lash down sails with barely a thought. |
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So it is surprising that America's energy revolution of the past few years has not had a serious scribe before now. |
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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. |
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O'Rian wasn't elevated to chair of the local authority before now. |
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With his hot-headedness of before now under control, and having stepped out from under the shadow of his big brother, he is maturing into a very good driver. |
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I'm embarrassed that I've never been properly there before now. |
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Why hasn't New York City acted before now? |
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The thing is, I don't think I would have been able to assume songs like this before now because I didn't feel right about touching on the personal. |
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I am ashamed of not having seen or believed it so clearly before now. |
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Such reporting has not been done before now, and the consideration of the issue was an attempt to give serious thought as to how the required reporting of the Executive Board could be done effectively. |
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Before now scientists only managed to entangle a few atoms close together, raising a question mark over the practicality of quantum technology. |
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