'But you were drinking earlier: I could smell it.'

Mr. Depew was drinking at Ray's Inn earlier in the day.

I was drinking from it earlier, you both saw me.

It's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening.

Mr. Klingbergs, who had been drinking earlier, suddenly seemed to become despondent.

(I did not mention that Maine had also outlawed drinking a few decades earlier.)

If she hadn't been drinking earlier, her adrenalin was certainly flowing fast of its own accord.

The body of the man standing beside the post, he who had been drinking cat's blood a minute earlier, was flung violently away.

Vainio was supported by his friends who had quit drinking a few years earlier, such as Osmo "Osku" Kanerva.

They were shocked by both the explosions and the alcohol that they drank earlier.