Sentence examples for before the trip started from inspiring English sources
He appeared dangerously emaciated, and he said he had been skinny before the trip started.
Scott said before the trip started the Nets had to win at least one game or else "we'll pretty much do ourselves in".
One of Mr. Donilon's priorities was to try to persuade Beijing that Washington's shift toward Asia was not driven primarily by military considerations but was part of a broader engagement, said a former Obama administration official before the trip started, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Unfortunately, he died before the trip started.
An initial itinerary indicating the travel would consist of a road trip and then a two-hour dinghy ride up the Omand River to our final destination at Didigoro, was abandoned 24 hours before the trip started because the water level was too low for the dinghy to travel in.
The trip started 12 hours before in Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
There are no boarding passes, so before the trip starts we draw lots to assign seats.
Comparing two sets of daily tracking polls -- Rasmussen and Gallup -- taken before Obama's trip started and (hey, here's a novel idea) after the trip actually ended, we see that Rasmussen shows a gain of 5 points for Obama, while Gallup shows a gain of 7. Doesn't that sound like a bounce to you? Media insiders now talk about polling brands the way average Joes talk about their favorite beer.
And yet it was all there in that premonition two days before the trip even started.
