Sentence examples for before the flights from inspiring English sources

Before the flights took off, carrying Taiwanese businessmen and their families home for next week's lunar new-year holiday, a Chinese spokesman said relations remained "grim".

One former American official said it was not entirely clear what cargo was being sent to Syria before the flights stopped in March.

And I reckon Joanna's people and Will.i.am's people spent a long time negotiating what could and couldn't be asked, way before the flights were booked.

One investigator said that the information might explain the report of a witness in Boston who told federal agents that he observed a group of men in a parking garage -- who the authorities later concluded were members of a hijacking team -- arguing violently just before the flights took off.

Out of curiosity, several days before the flights, I looked at the seat maps.

Before the flights, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters that the military would not comply with China's demands while flying over what the U.S. considers international waters and airspace.

Ms. Clemons wrote the day before the flight.

They didn't even know each other before the flight.

I was sold this package 36 hours before the flight.

All our training before the flight was very helpful".

And indeed, in the hangar before the flight, the Spatial Flux prototype looked intriguing, but inert.