Sentence examples for Had unfolded before from inspiring English sources

"When you're young, you think anything is possible, but you also look at what history had unfolded before," Shelmon said in a phone interview last week.

Once, he says, he had finished a case and taken off his gloves and was walking down the hall away from the operating room when he suddenly stopped, because he realized that the tape he had been playing in his head didn't match the operation that had unfolded before his eyes.

In a café in Mostar - a place which became stitched into international consciousness in the same way as Sarajevo - a comparable fable had unfolded before West's eyes in the 1930s: Young officers moved rhythmically through the beams of white light that poured down upon the acid green of the billiard tables, and the billiard balls gave out their sound of stoical shock.

Two hours after John F. Kennedy's murder, he was standing in the frame of Cecil Stoughton's famous photo of Johnson's swearing-in aboard Air Force One, finding the transfer of power a "grave and wondrous miracle that had unfolded before my eyes".

Without his intervention and guidance, our family unit would have never survived the nightmare that had unfolded before us.

That was several days before Tonya announced that she knew about the plot to attack Nancy Kerrigan only after it had unfolded, and about a week before Jeff pleaded guilty, but several days after Shawn Eric Eckardt complained to the Portland Oregonian that Tonya had browbeaten him for not getting around to arranging the assault as quickly as she wanted.

And this alarm was sounded largely before the current economic crisis had unfolded.

It was that failure of responsibility that I spoke about when I came to New York more than two years ago -- before the worst of the crisis had unfolded.

All day today, plans had unfolded to take the grandmothers to Mr. Gonzalez's home.

Months later, Casson told me that the crisis had unfolded "in real time".

But none of my caution could prepare me for what had unfolded — or the things people had done to survive.