That step, normally, should have preceded the forwarding of copies.
Steve watched the armoured feet of his interlocutor describe a semicircle from left shoulder to right then back again, each slow step preceded by the angled tip of his long-sword.
At the foundry, several more steps preceded the final casting.
But this step"-I touched the table in front of me- "what will happen between us today, must precede it.
Then he heard her step through the forest, the sound Of the steps preceding her through the leaves Like the calling card of a doe approaching the water, Trying her footing across newly covered ground.
The man whose steps preceded him eased his tall and lanky but stooped frame through the portal and into the recliner behind the ancient artifact that had no screen.
An intermediate step of adding two aldehydes together to obtain a larger aldehyde (the aldol condensation reaction) can precede the hydrogenation.
A step with side lead will often precede or follow a step of the opposite foot taken into contra body movement position (in which the leading side is that opposite the moving foot) without requiring intervening rotation of the body.
The tramp of the feet grew louder, and I began to sense that one step preceded the other very sharply, the second dragging slowly across the earth.