They did not touch a woman for a number of days before the game, because women were soft and weak.

But a warning: do not touch the instruments on the panels before you.

She reached out and touched the read plate before her.

As in "I'd like to touch base before close of play"

He added: 'The plane touched down just a short distance before the runway itself.

He touched his fingertips before him, tapped all ten against one another.

His mind leapt from one possibility to another, but she wasn't the type of woman who would let a man touch her before marriage.

He touched the page before him, with something like respect.

We touched the little man on our way out of the locker room, before every game.

"I want this plane to not touch the ground before five minutes after the hour."