Sentence examples for had announced before from inspiring English sources

Publicly, Sotheby's had announced before the sale that the Giacometti would sell for "in excess of $100m".

That turned out to be a bad assumption, as the PGA had announced before the tournament that all of Whistling Straits' bunkers - and there were 1,400 then, and 967 now - would be in play.

It was obvious to Kerry that a President should have the authority to back up diplomacy with force, and he had announced before casting his vote that he was voting not for war but to prevent it.

Under questioning, Mr. Riley said he did not know that Enron had announced before his arrival in Houston that the S.E.C. enforcement division had begun an informal inquiry into the company.

The FA had announced before the congress that it would be abstaining from the presidential vote and, even though their actions unsettled many Fifa members, they did receive the backing of the UK government.

Dan had announced before the season that this would be his last.

President Ahmadinejad: I have announced before that we will look at the proposal with a positive frame of mind.

"The old songs are better anyway," Billy Joe Armstrong, the group's still boyish frontman is said to have announced, before launching into a series of Dookie-era classics for the delighted audience.

('Whatever you do, Brer Fox, don't throw me into that briar patch,' said Brer Rabbit - just as Gibbs might have announced before his innings, 'Whatever you do Brers Flintoff, Harmison et al, don't bowl short outside my off stump.') But it wasn't all rubbish, and he had to endure a watchful wait before even getting off the mark.

As we have announced before, Theorem 1 can be generalized in the following easy way.

As I've announced before, I want to have reviewed all of the books that are piling up in my house by the time I reach my hundredth comic book column on this site.