The deal, which is still pending before the state attorney general's office, is complex.

She went back to her position before Sisko's office.

Smiling, Ellie knelt before her small office safe, and punched in the six-digit combination, 314159.

The lift deposited him in the corridor before the admiral's office.

Virginia paused before the headmistress's office, the decision already made.

Twenty minutes later and two floors lower, he finally stood before Charles Grayson's windowless office.

Morgan had seen a rider stop and dismount at the rack before the sheriff's office.

And then, one day, Devereaux, the government courier, halted his tired dogs before the gold commissioner's office.

His own rules, he said, assure that he will not take contributions from people who have business before his office.

Four months passed before the prosecutor's office passed the case on to the Attorney General.