Sentence examples for had competed before from inspiring English sources

As soon as you get that, you get hooked". The next assignment for a man who had competed before an audience of millions in lycra was to learn the art of muscle flexing in tight-fitting shorts.

"It was comforting to be able to pick out a few familiar faces in a group full of strangers". The pageant is known for being a welcoming to newcomers, but both CdMHS girls had competed before.

He had competed twice before in the P.G.A. Championship but had not gone past the fourth round.

The Club World Championship replaced the Intercontinental Cup, which both teams had competed in before.

None of his teammates had competed in the Olympics before, either.

Like Kelley, Yergler, and Safford, Scanlan had competed in international events before coming to college, so she'd had some practice managing the demands of academics and fencing.

The Chicagoland event had three big-jumping dogs who had competed against one another before, and they were the ones to watch.

I had competed in international competitions before, in Singapore and the Isle of Man, but this was the big one for me".

"You do look kind of silly wearing it," said Jarrod Shoemaker, 25, of Sudbury, Mass., who had competed in Beijing twice before.

"Before, we had competed in the portal race, taking the stance 'You can do anything' and trying to appeal to everyone," said Doug De Vito, vice president for marketing at Go.com in North Hollywood, Calif.

Conner and its CEO, Finis Conner "who founded Seagate with Shugart and then was a victim of a bitter falling out between the two," had competed with Seagate for years before selling out.