The situation had been tense long before the bombing began.

Something similar happened in 1991, when the allied bombing of Iraq began.

Whether or not weapons are found, expect the bombing to begin.

The world is a far less safe place than it was before the bombing of Yugoslavia began.

Why not give the Serbs good reason to settle before real bombing began?

We never heard from the ship after the bombings began.

The planes had gone up, and behind us the bombing began.

And delays of up to five hours appeared immediately after the bombing began in Iraq.

Yet she wrote this many days after the bombing had begun.

The other members of the team went back to Spain a few days before the bombings began.