Example sentences of "have never [be] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dusk deepened until I could no longer see ten yards ahead , and after I 'd knocked the shaft of the arrow against an unseen hazard twice within a minute I stopped and sank slowly down to my knees , resting my forehead and the front of my left shoulder against a young birch trunk , drained as I 'd never been before . |
| 2 | It was obvious she 'd never been before . |
| 3 | When finally the daylight came , I was somewhere else I 'd never been before . |
| 4 | And Alice was saying well I 'd never been before , I did n't know it were that cheap . |
| 5 | if you 've never been before , Westendorf will fulfill your idea of the Austrian Tyrol at its best . |
| 6 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 7 | Take me somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 8 | She was in a new place where she had never been before . |
| 9 | She forced herself to concentrate , alert now as she had never been before with Gazzer . |
| 10 | It is therefore true to say that by the mid-1930s , the Labour Party was truly , as it had never been before , the party of the working class . |
| 11 | And it was this convergence that engendered a tradition among the working-class electorate of voting Labour ; Labour came to be identified with working-class interests as it had never been before . |
| 12 | I , on the other hand , was free as I had never been before : free of the boring business of examinations to be got through and jobs to be found , I was forming my life into a growing , organic design , normal and beautiful . |
| 13 | None of us knew exactly where we were , so the captain decided to continue sailing eastwards , where we had never been before . |
| 14 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 15 | Pregnancy made Carolyn aware of her body in a way she had never been before ; her small breasts had become heavy and almost painfully sensitive , and when Alan stroked her , or breathed close with his hot breath on her nipples , she felt giddy and weak . |
| 16 | Expeditions to the far-flung corners of the world in search of scientific novelties were in vogue that season as they had never been before . |
| 17 | A world of dizzying sensation where she had never been before ? |
| 18 | sort this out sensibly , the police overreact , they arrest him at midnight in the clothes he stands up in , they take him down to the police station , he 's held in the police station for about thirty six hours or so , something like that , er instead of being brought before the court straight away and released on bail straight away , they , they keep him in custody where he 's never been before , er and Madam he 's then released on bail but court imposes silly conditions on him , conditions that he should n't go back to his home address , he ca n't go and see his girlfriend , he ca n't go and see his children , er , and Madam it seems to be an abuse of the process really of the court to behave in this way . |
| 19 | Then it is as if our fragmented lives are integrated , fulfilled and satisfied as they have never been before . |
| 20 | So now here I am — Mrs Tamm wo n't leave her desk — not heading back to my own room and my labours on the great Assessment , but in the back parts of the building where I have never been before , picking my way blindly along the twisting ad hoc corridors , up and down odd arbitrary stairs , in the faint hope of ( seeing also ) . |