tell someone in advance

He supposed there was no way to tell such a thing in advance.

Its not as if they weren't told in advance exactly what would happen.

It was another to tell him in advance you were going to.

I was wrong, perhaps, not to tell you in advance.

No couple could tell in advance what their child might be.

There was no way to tell in advance what it might be like.

No one could ever tell in advance which ones would survive.

Of course, we will tell them in advance so everyone can run home.

His father, he said, had not been told in advance about the promotion.

Why, I could tell well in advance when any particular fly was making up its mind to begin to play.