The part to come is more important than what happened before.

Anything to stop thinking about what had happened the day before.

Every morning, no matter what had happened the night before, she got up and put her game face on.

The same bad thing had happened to her before, long ago, far away.

But it was quite different to the way things would have happened before.

This sort of thing had happened to her before, though.

It had happened before, those times when he'd come back to me.

He just asked why, as if this had happened to him before.

He cannot remember anything that has happened 7 years before.

Nothing at all like this had ever happened to him before.

Think about what must have happened all the years before 9/11.

As I have said, the cause must happen before the effect.

But we don't think those things are likely to happen before the middle of next year.

The real first is going to happen before us in the next few hours.

Each is important, and could not happen without the one before it.

It happened only a few days before the death of his wife and baby.

Many changes happened to the show before the start of this season.

"He would like to know more about what happened before that night."

The body knew what was about to happen before the brain.

He told me the story, as it happened in this very place, years before his time.