1.   I have to go back into hospital before Christmas but then I hope to be at home.

2.   As is standard, the researchers will obtain permission from an ethics committee at each hospital before examining records and interviewing patients.

3.   Axtell spent six days at a hospital before being transferred to a rehabilitation hospital.

4.   Berges was turned away from two hospitals before finally being admitted to the Evita Hospital in Berazategui, four hours after being shot.

5.   Biswas, typical of many AIDS patients, had shuttled through four Calcutta-area hospitals before arriving at the AIDS ward.

6.   A nurse, she makes fruitless inquiries at her hospital before resorting to a knitting needle and then an even more unfortunate solution.

7.   Afghan and U.S. troops surrounded the hospital before dawn and traded fire with the men inside.

8.   Bowman died at the hospital before Kratz could talk to her that day.

9.   Could a wisp of the anthrax mailed to Washington have found its way to the basement of a Manhattan hospital before settling in the lungs of the worker?

10.   Eighty million dollars . . . and he was in a hospital before the end of his first game with his new team.