Sentence examples for had started before from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it had started before, but for many people the first indication that things were going a bit sideways was when Thomas refused to join his teammates at the White House for the annual championship photo op with the president.

It had started before I went to college.

And many people continue the fights they had started before the rise of the crescent moon.

Making matters worse, they had started, before the shutdown, to turn on one another.

But the slide that had started before the Verizon deal was not stemmed by it.

Finding out that our hangovers had started before we had even passed out.

"Misch, Valdes, Ollie, all those guys that have started before.

But it seems to have started before the crisis.

So yes, the Olympic mistakes have started before the Olympics officially started.

"If people really wanted to stop development," she said, "they should've started before people built all those houses".

Ben Foden and Chris Ashton should have started before and, with a rejuvenated Mike Tindall hammering over the gainline and Toby Flood injecting momentum, a new team started to materialise.