Rain had started to fall before the start of the race.

But to fall hours, maybe only minutes, before help arrived.

He fell back before it, but only a step or two.

He had a lot more than a touch; by the look of him, he'd fall over dead one fine day before too long.

However, he fell ill before the race and did not drive.

The heavy light fell on the scene at the center of the wide area before her.

Just as I came up, the umbrella fell right before me.

She ran across the room to fall on her knees before the man in the chair.

And they did it by standing on the bodies of those who fell before them!

But the time had come, one evening, when the boy fell asleep before the fire.

But it was sent to the oil city of Kirkuk, which had fallen the day before.

People and underpeople had fallen in love many times before.

I only discovered later that her parents had fallen under the guillotine nearly a week before.

If you had fallen in love before, you would never have come.

People and under people had fallen in love many times before.

Her father had fallen asleep on the couch many times before, and maybe that was where he was.

You're a businessman of a sort yourself, and sales must have fallen through for you before.

I knew now how he had died and why he hadn't fallen forward before.

Less than an inch of rain had fallen the day before, but the river rose between five and six feet in a matter of hours.

If it hasn't fallen before, it won't come down now.