Before in a sentence

Dying before your dinner?
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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Dictionary

Merriam-Webster
— in advance : AHEAD
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Macmillan
— earlier than something
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Usage

116 uses of ‘before’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
92 uses of ‘before’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle