Sentence examples for before this expedition from inspiring English sources

Before this expedition, I had seldom spent much time looking at birds; in fact I had suffered three decades of acute bird blindness.

Nelson, who had not known him before this expedition, had conceived a great affection for Riou, and wrote 'In poor dear Riou the country has sustained an irreparable loss.' The naval historian Sir Jahleel Brenton declared that he had all the qualities of a perfect officer.

It will be months before the epilogue of this expedition can truly be written, since our experiments take time to set up and process.

This expedition subjugated the Cyclades, before besieging, capturing and razing Eretria.

"It appears to represent a blank page in a chapter of Earth time not seen before," says expedition leader John Ostrom of Yale University.

Joyce travelled to Denmark to acquire dogs for this expedition, and took them on to Tasmania where, according to one account, he was "dismissed" by Mawson before the expedition left Australia.

"I know we're going to find something that no one's ever seen before," said the expedition's chief scientist.

He died, however, before the expedition could get under way.

The trouble began before the expedition left Paris.

Under Christian V he was appointed to command the Danish fleet against Sweden but died before the expedition.

Three died before the expedition began: one on a deep dive in Ireland, another in an underwater crevice in Australia, the third from carbon monoxide poisoning in Cozumel.