Sentence examples for had previously been engaged from inspiring English sources

He had previously been engaged to his cousin, Juliana of Hesse-Eschwege, but the engagement was broken after a scandal.

Subsequently, however, Powerscourt conceded that Cilins had previously been engaged by BSGR in Guinea.

Ritchie Neville, the singer from boy band 5ive, to whom Piper had previously been engaged, could only - publicly - bemoan his lot.

He had previously been engaged to the French swimmer Laure Manaudou, whom he left for Pellegrini, who went on to take Manadou's world title.

With three other risk-takers, who had previously been engaged in various occupations that included some gray-market activity, he dug a shaft from a basement apartment in West Berlin to a basement apartment in East Berlin; the occupant of the former was given a small cut of the tunnel profits, and the occupant of the latter was paid off with free passage for himself and his wife.

Some of the children have gone through rough experiences and had previously been engaged in improper and delinquent behaviours.

CECs have previously been engaged to evaluate negative trials of adjuvant agents in critical illness in order to determine a target population for further study [ 16, 17].

Yet the fact that over 60% of the papers presented to the Oceans Past II Conference in May 2009 were delivered by researchers who had not previously been engaged in the project suggests that the HMAP approach is being adopted by a growing number of scientists and historians.

We had previously been unable to engage MHPs in online discussion with MHSUs.

At one point during the intense duet in Act III, Ms. Fleming forcibly moved herself into the line of vision of the tenor Johan Botha, who was playing Otello and had previously been unwilling or unable to engage with his scene partner.

Laro, based in Bayshore, L.I., failed in its application to work at the Fulton Fish Market to reveal that it had previously been found by the National Labor Relations Board to have engaged in unfair labor practices.