1 My sister looked at Pumblechook: who smoothed the elbows of his wooden arm-chair, and nodded at her and at the fire, as if he had known all about it beforehand.
2 I saw in this, a reason for her being beforehand assigned to me.
3 The time when one would be due where we lay, wherever that might be, could be calculated pretty nearly, if we made inquiries beforehand.
4 The late Compeyson having been beforehand with him in intelligence of his return, and being so determined to bring him to book, I do not think he could have been saved.
5 I said beforehand, certainly not.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME 6 I had arranged the visit, beforehand, with Miss Lavinia; and Agnes was expected to tea.
7 I know beforehand that nothing you, or anyone, can tell me, will show my husband's noble heart in any other light than one.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS 8 So sensible of this, beforehand, that I had really felt ashamed of doing what I was nevertheless impelled to do, I went back to the inn.
9 He had obviously prepared the sentence beforehand.
10 Afterwards, on a day fixed beforehand, the expected offer was made to her parents, and accepted.
11 She knew beforehand that everything would go on in the old way, and far worse, indeed, than in the old way.
12 "That my wish coincides with your own," she finished quickly, exasperated at his talking so slowly while she knew beforehand all he would say.
13 But you must come a little beforehand, so as to be on the spot by the eighth.
14 She sat in the window looking at Dolly, and going over in her own mind all the stores of intimate talk which had seemed so inexhaustible beforehand, and she found nothing.
15 Oh, I agree to everything Arseny thinks beforehand.