One last, memorable time before the child came.

Then a few weeks before the child was born she turned her out of the house.

So Williams had 'married' her three months before the child was born.

"I did not mean to speak before the child," he apologised abruptly.

That child was born only three months before the child with whom this court is concerned.

Another moon before the child came, one more after that for cleansing.

"Another little Eva" they teased long before the small child knew what they were talking about.

Indeed, we heard how near his death he was, Before the child himself felt he was sick.

Before the child is born, the women "kill" the imaginary ones.

For example, "They got married and had a child" in common discourse means that the marriage came before the child.