Example sentences of "have never [been] [vb pp] before in " in BNC.

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1 It is the occasional unknown specimen which can prove unnerving , the creature which has never been seen before in any swamp or tropical rainforest , mountain cave , zoo or bestiary …
2 Estimate , instead , the sheer physical task that is being contemplated : to build a ‘ Stansted at Stanley ’ would be to do something that has never been done before in the whole of history .
3 Carly 's mother said : ‘ The fact this has never been done before in Britain does n't worry me .
4 The concept of running a road bridge over a listed , 140-year-old railway viaduct seems simple enough but has never been tried before in this country .
5 Apparently this question had never been addressed before in a systematic way .
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