come before something
come before someone

But he has held up better than some who came before him.

We can only see Art now through the eyes of others who came before us.

The issue is almost certain to come before Congress next year.

The general finally came to his feet before the table.

I came to the old house the night before the first meeting.

I had found a friend in my father and come to terms with him as himself before his death.

Security for the rest of your life certainly comes before anything else.

People used to come here all the time, in those days, before the war, to ask for things.

Things came to a head just before the beginning of the 1982 season.

"Did you see anyone come out of the building before I got here?"

"They are the same as others who have come before."

I wanted to say, thinking of both myself and those who had come before.

And no matter what came before, it would always be the same.

These past few months, there's been more not coming back than in the ten years before.

Well, he'd deal with the problems as they came up and not before.

"We have more people coming in early this year than ever before."

They weren't the same as the ones who came before.

We have parents coming to the schools who had never come before.

She gave me the name of the man, for he had come by the place before.

They had come to town only about 18 months before, and kept to themselves.