Was there no way back even to the life she had lived before her encounter with the symbiont?

She said she had been "a little nervous" before her first encounter with the family.

Most significant, phone records show that the man who called 911 had spoken with the suspects on Wednesday before their encounter, the police said.

The meteoroid had experienced a considerable amount of shock before its ultimate encounter with Earth.

The movements and contacts of the Blaine person before his encounter with misfortune.

It was just before my first personal encounter with one of your cousins.

She, meanwhile, claimed to have had a prophetic vision of meeting Brown before their encounter.

Before their encounter Sien had two illegitimate children, in 1874 and 1879.

The travellers have several other adventures before their next encounter with the Brotherhood.

"You two had a fight before Sookie's encounter with the maenad?"