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Shortly before he died I flew out to New York and spent a week with him at a conference, which he had in New York.

He becomes the Dark Wanderer, leaving Tristram behind shortly before legions of foul demons attack and destroy the town and its inhabitants.

But he's convinced she was a local because he heard her calling to a female friend shortly before he lost site of her.

It was revealed that even the team of embroiderers did not know the identity of the designer until shortly before the public announcement.

Shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match against a team sponsored by an inner city church. The kids were mostly black.

Shortly before his death this year, aged 95, Borlaug reportedly expressed regret that he would not live to see the "gene revolution" .

There was a woman who was pregnant with twins, and shortly before they were due, she had an accident and went into a coma.

Shortly before I started at the State Department, a former Secretary of State called me with this advice: Don't try to do too much.

The marriage had ended shortly before he moved away, but Zichen had used him to excuse herself from two years of social life.

Shortly before training camp, he said he would play for only the Lakers, if he played at all.

"You can be in the black with green ideas, " he said in an interview shortly before the election.

The Delegation acknowledged that the document was a fairly lengthy one and it had been circulated shortly before the first IIM.

The 89-year-old billionaire has said he is committed to the carmaker. But he said that about MGM, a film studio, shortly before selling it.

Shortly before he arrived at the hospital earlier this month, Patrick Patterson received a call from his mother.

"The explosions in the backyard were getting to be a bit much, " she told me, shortly before my own visit to the family's home.

He took the name George Orwell, shortly before its publication.

U. S. Marshals say a pilot who apparently tried to fake his own death slashed one of his wrists shortly before he was found.

Shortly before 11am, she emerged to tell waiting reporters that she had been dismissed.

But Mr Castro stopped trying to overthrow Latin American governments more than two decades ago, shortly before his Soviet sponsor collapsed.

In May of the following year, shortly before I was due to leave, Henry suggested that we go on a short walking tour.

Shortly before I left China, an eminent Chinese writer pressed me to say what I considered the chief defects of the Chinese.

and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match against a team sponsored by an inner-city church.

Dying people in hospitals have had their beds placed on delicate scales shortly before death and hooked up to EEG and ECG monitors.

A wealthy bride-to-be is arrested and jailed for the murder of her adoptive mother shortly before her wedding.

Shortly before his graduation, Jim Binns, president of the senior class at Stanford University, wrote me about some of his misgivings.

Still, Mr. Wong says, Citigroup's decision not to renew his contract shortly before it was due to end "came as quite a shock. "

But shortly before the sale, Mr. Jackson sued to prevent it, saying that he had never been given an opportunity to remove personal items.

Corrections to the document were made shortly before the project was presented to the bank's board, then amended, then inexplicably dropped.

THIS time a year ago, shortly before a presidential election, Iran seemed on the verge of momentous change.

Shortly before the Expo opening, several cultural venues had their operations constrained, and a few were forced to close temporarily.

The Republican government granted him one of its highest honours shortly before it was overthrown by the Communist Party in 1949.

He drove his Simplex motorbike to Anaheim, arriving shortly before 1 a. m. to take his place in line an hour before anyone else showed up.

"He was doing some financial business, " said Ding Shouyu, a former Aomi executive who left the company shortly before its collapse.

S. occupied Japan and effectively colonized the island of Okinawa, seized in a bitter battle shortly before Tokyo surrendered. The U.

Georgia - Deputy leader of the little brother, shortly before the turn into the class, is now being hit hard brother.

The police boarded the plane shortly before it was to take off and took the two men into custody.

Mr. Buffett said he learned of the extent of the stock purchases shortly before beginning a trip to Asia on March 19.

Shortly before Cambodia's noon deadline for the Thai troops to move, the Cambodian army chief said all were back in Thai territory.

"I consult with her about many things, " Abe said shortly before becoming prime minister. "She's the person who understands me the best. "

A student journalist interviewed someone claiming to be a representative of the hackers shortly before the Obama tweets were posted.

Instead, shortly before noon, the steamship company dispatched two launches to the ship to take the passengers ashore.

Shortly before I spoke to Mr. Long Yongtu, there is a conversation, that when it comes to the question of China's internationalization.

Shortly before the handover, it seemed entirely possible that the likes of Mr Lee would end up in jail.

I had to see the President shortly before luncheon about other matters.

One example is a contract that has been terminated shortly before they were to receive severance pay and return airfare.

Shortly before noon, we would come back through the ruins to a little cafe by the side of the port.

Shanghai Guanghua and shijinpo shortly before the wind through our greeting card co. , Ltd. has successfully completed a deal.

Manuel Zelaya spoke from Costa Rica, saying he was detained shortly before voting was to begin on a constitutional referendum.

This stranger spoke to me shortly before walking away into the crowd, never to be seen or heard from again.

Shortly before we left Cyprus, Magan and I had a strained encounter with the Governor, Sir Hugh Foot.

But she's a young Mighty Messenger, that happened only shortly before she took on this public project.

Rumours of a possible animal poisoner were reinforced by claims that a woman was seen near Kim's enclosure shortly before she died.

Some control procedures appear to have been predictable, being timed to take place shortly before the settlement date of futures contracts.

Shortly before Christmas in 1978, the leader of the free world came down with a severe case of hemorrhoids.

The body then builds up replacement blood and, shortly before an event, the extra blood is injected back into the body.

At the Salt Lake City airport, Dennis Tos made sure to try to avoid delays and crowds by boarding a redeye flight shortly before midnight.

Later someone told me that the story appeared in a magazine shortly before the the First World War.

But sadly, she miscarried shortly before se was to co-star with Mel in the great epic, War and Peace.

Beijing relented in June 2010, shortly before a G-20 leaders' summit, and said it would allow a more 'flexible' exchange rate.

Shortly before 12: 30 that day, Bear Stearns executives began to gather on the 12th floor for a weekly lunch to discuss market issues.

Shortly before the end of the only total championship contest, very intense.

The book was published shortly before her death in 1878 and became one of the best-loved children's classics of all time.

Shortly before midnight, I noticed she was having a cramp, I started pressing under her nose, and the cramp gradually subsided.

Shortly before Kaupthing's collapse, Stanford became a leading shareholder in the bank.

Shortly before 11 a. m. a man stepped out of the crowd, took Hamidi's hand and detonated explosives hidden in his turban.

Shortly before the bus accident, a car with two people on board crashed into a field on the other side of the road.

It was induced when shortly before the war I received a picture of my sweetheart.

Members of one were told to drink half a litre of water (a bit more than an American pint) shortly before each of three daily meals.

Assured of a place, ticket holders then leave and return shortly before 8 A. M. to line up for the real tickets.

Herbert Lehman again, by now senator from New York and speaking of the perils of giant business shortly before he retired in 1957.

Mr. Buffett says he learned the extent of Mr. Sokol's holdings 'shortly before' he left for a trip to Asia on March 19.

The crash occurred near Ocotillo shortly before 1 p. m. a few miles from the U. S. -Mexico border and 80 miles east of San Diego.

The Chinese cargo carrier began operations shortly before the US decided to impose sanctions on Great Wall and its subsidiaries.

Previous such incidents, optimists say, have come shortly before market bottoms.

So a princess, shortly before the French Revolution, actually said something very similar to Let them eat cake!

This vintage print shows the Titanic shortly before leaving on her maiden voyage in 1912.

Many in China involve merely taking a passive minority stake through a convertible bond shortly before the company goes public.

It may not be entirely coincidental that Amazon is making this announcement shortly before the arrival of Barnes &Noble's Nook.

Because of the dangerous situation in Afghanistan, the president's trip was kept secret until shortly before he arrived.

Grace was baptised a few weeks before Easter of 2010, and therefore shortly before the last general election.

None of us, including Manny, knew what sequence of ABX we would use until shortly before the first musical selection was played.

IT WAS a comment calculated to provoke the Iranian regime shortly before the anniversary of the 1979 revolution.

This means that you can lock these values into the pattern or provide the values shortly before deployment.

The investigation determined that the man cleaned pigeon faeces from blocked roof gutters at his home shortly before symptom onset.

Shortly before taking office last April he waved through a decision to deny a visa to the Dalai Lama.

In the previous two U. S. downturns, M&A activity peaked shortly before the recession began and then bottomed about two years later.

Shortly before that, protesters outside the luxury hotel he used as his home in Rome had humiliatingly pelted him with coins.

Some of its candidates were apparently registered shortly before the polling date.

Our route led us through northern Italy, where we stopped at the beautiful Lago Maggiore, shortly before entering Switzerland.

He arranged for a battalion of clone soldiers to arrive in-system at a designated time, and shortly before, infiltrated the palace.

Engineers had blasted some 300 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide into the sky shortly before the storm.

Shortly before the system came apart, Mr. Herbertsson was on television sounding optimistic notes.

Wang Leehom aside, David Tao (Tao Zhe) will also be releasing his new album shortly before Jay's.

The family returned to the U. S. shortly before the outbreak of World War II and settled Beverly Hills.

Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole said limited service on the busy route was expected to resume shortly before the start of the Monday commute.

But we were both wrong. Clarissa hasn't worked since the summer of 1991, shortly before she delivered our third child.

'Our ladies are very vulnerable, ' she tells me shortly before the meeting starts.

Harrison Ford, of Star Wars and Indiana Jones fame, majored in philosophy at Ripon College, but dropped out shortly before graduation.

It was achieved in secret talks the parties held in Oslo, which we were informed of shortly before I took office.

The media briefing at Oliver Tambo airport shortly before his departure, Aristide spoke of mixed feelings at leaving South Africa.

Shortly before his death, Beckett stipulated that his published letters should "have bearing on my work. "

Shortly before the Boonta Eve Classic, the impulsive Trax got into a heated argument with Guo.

Shortly before the war's end, Solzhenitsyn was arrested and sentenced to eight years in the labour camps.

Carl Panzram, serial killer, shortly before he was executed by hanging.

Unfortunately, shortly before its closest flyby at five hundred miles, Rosetta's narrow angle camera stopped working.

Shortly before the tournament started, I was discussing the rising tensions between Israel and Iran with a senior diplomat.

According to neighbours of the former couple, Mrs Wood now lives in a care home. Mr Wood died shortly before he turned 99.

The emails and documents were published online shortly before the United Nations' climate summit in Copenhagen.

Shortly before that event, she caused controversy with comments bemoaning the influx of Asian golfers to the LPGA Tour.

Shortly before Mr Obama's visit, the deputy chief of the People's Liberation Army happened to be inAustraliafor annual bilateral talks.

The moth that Gandalf whispers to was born shortly before filming that day, and died soon after the scene was finished.

He had switched jobs shortly before he was detained for his work for IHS.

I heard of a married acquaintance who saw a prostitute shortly before his wedding.

In June, shortly before an earlier G-20 summit, China said it would end its two-year-old practice of tying the yuan tightly to the dollar.

Liu Shihui was violently assaulted by law enforcement agents shortly before he disappeared.

Ambassador Stephen Bosworth met with reporters in Tokyo Wednesday shortly before heading to Beijing.

It happened shortly before a graduation ceremony for soldiers was due to start at the base.

The chef said he was given the picture shortly before he fled to Japan in 2001.

Abbas submitted the request for UN recognition to the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, shortly before his speech.

shortly before 5 pm today , reports were made to the police that a taxi was caught on fire on sik kong wai road in tin shui wai.

Shortly before the end of the registration period for the 2010 season, board meetings take place at Aston Martin and Prodrive.

Authorities say the crew sent forward distress signal shortly before the crowded passenger jet slammed into the ground .

Her last message to me shortly before she died was, "I am going to Heaven and I want to see you there. "

at Oliver Tambo airport shortly before his departure, Aristide spoke of mixed feelings as leaving South Africa.

Shortly before the 1929 stock market crash he found the shoe shine boy* talking to him about stock tips and what he was thinking of buying.

Ardena Clark was later replaced by a new member "Love" shortly before they broke up due to creative differences.

The power spike could have occurred on Friday or shortly before Friday, Erickson said.

"Will God accept me when I die? " A member of our congregation asked me this question shortly before she died.

Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and rose toward orbit shortly before sunrise on Monday.

Italian television, largely under his sway, mostly ignored them until shortly before polling.

Shortly before it failed, it also found stunning evidence that liquid water recently coursed through Mars.

The concourse was reopened shortly before midnight. The man who was being sought was not found, the authorities said.

Shortly before a tornado, most people say it sounds like a train is coming.

Chelsea's best opportunity presented itself shortly before the break, when Wayne Bridge's powerful left-footed shot cleared the crossbar.

Reporters also quizzed Benitez on whether he regretted substituting Fernando Torres shortly before the leveller.

Google informed the National Security Council shortly before it announced its decision.

Shortly before Spain's departure to South Africa, Iker Casillas offered his thoughts on the upcoming World Cup.

Mr Obama spoke shortly before leaders from the G20 countries gathered in Pittsburgh for a summit.

He was slated to appear in a stage production of The Woman Before in May 2005, but was fired shortly before the opening night.

Shortly before this week's summit with the EU, the government collapsed again; there may be another parliamentary election (see article).

Making one of few public appearances this year, shortly before his 81st birthday on December 5th, the king did indeed look his age.

Analysis of the BBC, this recording was recorded on Osama bin Laden shortly before killed.

The attacks came shortly before a visit by Richard Holbrooke, Barack Obama's envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Apollo made the offer in July 2007, at the tail-end of the private-equity boom and shortly before the bust in credit markets.

Wang, the men's singles world champion, started seeing another national team player shortly before the Athens Olympics in 2004.

Toyota released the news after Tuesday's U. S. stock market close and shortly before the Wednesday Tokyo opening.

A bipartisan group of senators unveiled one shortly before the president spoke.

Shortly before 10 a. m. , they set off for a Redondo Beach community center for a twice-a-month geography lesson with other home schoolers.

The patient caught pneumonia and went out shortly before midnight.

Disillusioned, according to Mr Din, he threw his bugle into the Ganges shortly before he died.

Shortly before his 45th birthday this past September, he beat men half his age to win the Air Force Marathon again.

"We still don't expect stocks to stage any meaningful rally until shortly before the economy reaches a floor, " says Capital's John Higgins.

She rushed outside, bought some coal, and returned shortly before electricity and water were cut off.

During his message, the Rabbi told the people of the conversation he had with the young woman shortly before she died.

Police in China prevented China's first ever gay pageant from taking place shortly before it was to begin Friday.

his appointment comes shortly before Mr Obama is set to unveil a broad new policy initiative on job creation.

They had escaped to America shortly before war broke out in 1939.

Shortly before Kennedy's inauguration, President DwightD. Eisenhower shocked the nation and the world with his televised farewell speech.

He sold the patent for his bread-slicing machine shortly before Wonder Bread became a uniquely American sensation.

Mozart composed his last opera shortly before he died.

The chopper's pilot reported engine failure shortly before the craft went down today in southeastern Afghanistan.

Nietzsche met Wagner in Leipzig shortly before taking up his appointment to the chair of Classical Philology in Basel in1869.

Speaking shortly before the navy took the shot, he added that "no one has expressed concern" .

Shortly before she died, she spoke up for an exiled academic she thought was unjustly accused of taking part in the genocide.

Local police say if the blast, which happened at the crowded Tianshi food market shortly before noon ( local time ), was caused by a bomb.

It is reported that shortly before Kunpeng Airlines headquarters moved to Zhengzhou Airport.

Jackson was 50 when he died in his Los Angeles home on June 25 last year, shortly before a planned series of comeback concerts in London.

Shortly before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 Pico della Mirandola in Florence conceived a Christian version of the Cabala.

Then one day, shortly before Easter , three bunny rabbits were placed on the shelf beside him.

During his message, the pastor told the people of the conversation he had with the woman shortly before she died.

Giggs was forced off shortly before half-time against West Bromwich Albion, and United missed him badly in the second half.

The supermarket Casa Dos Frescos sold a melon for $100 shortly before Christmas to an irate Frenchman.

Gazelle also began running a national television ad campaign shortly before the release of the 4S to alert users of the site's existence.

Witnesses say they heard loud explosions and saw clouds of smoke and dust shortly before eight in the morning.

The shooting began shortly before 9: 30 a. m. Five police officers were inside the building within three minutes, Schultz said.

Our dreams always connect themselves with such ideas as have shortly before been present in our consciousness.

The deal comes shortly before the Iraqi government prepares to auction off oil contracts to foreign company.

The two left their base in Kabul shortly before sunset on Friday and then disappeared.

Mission managers cleared the issue shortly before liftoff.

The spill comes shortly before the start of the fishing season for crab, shrimp and oysters.

Obama is planning a major address in Saint Paul, Minnesota, shortly before the polls close later tonight.

Shortly before the end of the championship game, very intense.

Chinalco had taken a 9% stake in Rio in a dawn raid in February 2008, shortly before BHP made formal its unofficial approach to Rio.

Rust had devastated the Midwest in the 1930s, and Mexico shortly before he went there.

The two returned to Bucharest shortly before the summit began.

Shortly before his arrest Mr Khodorkovsky estimated state corruption at around $30 billion, or 10% of the country's GDP.

His latest, 'Shieldwall, ' released in May, is a historical novel set in 11th-century England, shortly before the Norman Conquest.

Mr Fuld sponsored a room of Rothkos and other works in the Museum of Modern Art shortly before Lehman Brothers went under.

Shortly before noon Edwina instructed Tottenhoe to advise the payroll department .

In 2009, shortly before his death, Edward Kennedy was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama.

Your cordial letter reached me shortly before my departure from Japan.

Shortly before the uninhabited space station reached orbit in May 1973, aerodynamic pressure ripped off a meteoroid and heat shield.

Friendship 7 lifted off shortly before 10 a. m. and made three orbits of the Earth at an altitude of 162 statute miles.

Savage rows past Diamond Head shortly before arriving in Honolulu on September 1, 2008, marking the end of the first stage.

Shortly before 8: 30 p. m. , 'a small minority' of protesters became violent, said a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police.

The plane took to the air shortly before 10 a. m. , one minute ahead of schedule.

Alexander Graham Bell in 1882, shortly before fighting the first audio war with Edison. Photo: Wikicommons.

She described hearing "terrible noises" shortly before the arrest.

Tennessee's ban is set to end shortly before Workman's scheduled execution.

The first blast came from a car parked near the busy shopping street of Drottninggatan shortly before 5 p. m. local time.

I remember the first time I took Michelle to Kenya, shortly before we were married.

I saw him shortly before he died.

Sweden held them to a 2-2 draw in Budapest shortly before the Wembley game by sitting deep, disrupting their passing by weight of numbers.

But Mireya Moscoso, Panama's president, pardoned him shortly before leaving office in 2004.

There were cheers when a glimpse of sun briefly broke through the clouds, shortly before the eclipse was due to begin at 8. 22. 20.

Shortly before the turn of the century, we built Beijing's first power plant.

The blast took place about 10: 15 a. m. , after the court opened and shortly before cases usually begin.

It is better to start the story from the rumor that circulated shortly before those Hungarian events.

Moreover, the reports were also made available shortly before the following meeting.

She came to me shortly before I started this project.

Shortly before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, there was the police crackdown on black people in China.

Luke Skywalker used this to absorb two direct hits from an AT-AT shortly before the Emperor returned.

So shortly before the anniversary, CNN reporters came to Ben's Chili Bowl to interview the Ali family.

Li's historic victory at Roland Garros was greeted with euphoria in China, where the match wrapped up shortly before midnight.

Terra's view is shortly before noon each day, and Aqua's is shortly after.

Shortly before graduation, the teacher standing on the podium: "of three questions. "

Lenchen made it to the west in 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

It took more than twenty years for sales to top one million dollars, which they did shortly before the Civil War .

I made the journey on a Friday evening shortly before the Spring Festival, securing a ticket with difficulty.

The prince's tour next year will come shortly before the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War.

The problem returned shortly before the London Olympics and caused Liu's disastrous fall in the 110-meter hurdles heat.

The police evacuated the village shortly before the explosion.

Cissy : Oh sure. She doesn't expect to stop until shortly before the baby is born.

More tellingly, Mr Kim visited the region shortly before the attack.

the father of six, was shot dead after two men entered his shop in Salt Lake City shortly before closing time on January 10th 1914.

The Chinese did alert the Obama administration shortly before making the decision public.

Panda pregnancies can last anything from 11 weeks to 11 months and can remain undetected until shortly before birth.

Boorujy attended college in Florida, arriving shortly before Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992.

Mr. Bradley didn't learn about the decision until shortly before it was announced, he has said.

Mr Spielberg secured an option to film Tintin shortly before Herge's death in 1983.

Some 250, 000 identity cards, required for voting, remained undistributed shortly before the election.

a full rehearsal shortly before the first performance.

United Airlines Flight 175 flies low toward theSouth Tower of the World Trade Center, shortly before slamming into thestructure.

We will be starting the magnetic pole reversal shortly before stasis is started.

Saturday's earthquake hit shortly before 9 a. m. local time in the rugged Hindu Kush mountains of northern Pakistan.

This photo was taken in a Munich photo studio c. 1893, shortly before Einstein left high school to join his family in Italy.

The envoys left Seoul shortly before the funeral began.

SHORTLY before the 2009 UN climate summit in Copenhagen, many companies got into green.

He was last seen on the 10th floor, heading upward, shortly before the tower collapsed.

Unfortunately, that was in 2007, shortly before The Sharper Image filed for bankruptcy.

Mr Thomson , who became chief financial officer shortly before the Associates deal in 2000 , held the post until 2004 .

The second change that we have made is that as requested by many users, we are imposing a transfer deadline shortly before the playoffs .

She moved to New York City shortly before the infamous garbage strike of 1979.

That's how she put it when she called me shortly before Memorial Day weekend.

The movie was over shortly before six.

He admitted the trick shortly before he died at age 90, in 1993.

Those infected shortly before (1 to 3 days) or shortly after immunization can still get the disease.

He begins this speech which was tape-recorded in Cambridge shortly before he died.

shortly before 5 pm , police received reports that a taxi was caught on fire on sik kong wai road , tin shui wai.

Shortly before rain there is wind and rain, rain no rain non-stop.