Will it be possible to have access to the room beforehand so that we can set up chairs?
puhekieltä In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.
Francis Bacon
rich and much beforehand
In a state of anticipation or preoccupation; often followed by with.
John Milton
Agricola (..) resolves to be beforehand with the danger.
Addison
The last cited author has been beforehand with me.
1839, London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine
(..) the medical attendant ought to be rather beforehand with the symptoms of excitement, and to diminish the large quantity of wine before they appear.