Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 2 | I want you to know and I think that you do — that I love you more than I ever did before , but in a slightly different way . |
| 3 | One interesting side-effect of all this is that I 've seen more of Britain than I ever did before , albeit through the windows of an armoured car . |
| 4 | Er the industrial life I never experienced before . |
| 5 | I never understood before that the sky might be frightening . ’ |
| 6 | I devoted my twenties to my family but I intend now to achieve the career that I never had before . |
| 7 | But tonight I never had before , yeah ah yeah ! |
| 8 | Their gross ignorance is the very smallest of their sins … anything so uncouth I never saw before … ’ wrote the British Consul at La Spezia , Italy , under the nom de plume Cornelius O'Dowd . |
| 9 | It 's a sight I never saw before . |
| 10 | Then someone peers out the little square panel , and finally some bolts are drawn back and a Rasta I never saw before beckons me inside . |
| 11 | A lot of the operations now I do I think I can do better that I 'm now seeing detail that I never saw before with the naked eye . |
| 12 | For the fates as surely directed you to me as they directed my feet this morning to a path I never took before . |