Example sentences of "[noun] has [adv] [vb pp] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard has never fainted before . |
| 2 | The triangular lug profile on sections of the outsole has also featured before . |
| 3 | This gambit , which Short has never played before , is almost never seen at the top level . |
| 4 | Now I know they 're absolutely outstanding vehicles , much better than Chrysler has ever done before . |
| 5 | ‘ My friend has never skied before , ’ I panted , after picking her up out of a picket fence . |
| 6 | Azzopardi has also escaped before , fleeing from a prison minibus in December last year while en route to Manchester Crown Court from Hull prison . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Hillary 's reward for standing by her man and not forging too far ahead with her own individual approach will be immense — a degree of personal power that no American woman has ever savoured before . |
| 8 | ‘ We are about to stand into an ocean where no ship has ever sailed before , ’ Magellan is said to have cried ( though it has to be reiterated that there is no hard evidence that he dit so ) . |
| 9 | A spokesman for Red Adair said that : " this is absolutely the worst-case scenario of what the Iraqis could do — it 's something the world has never seen before " . |
| 10 | He has a gun trained on Keith and a large , nervous man Mark has never seen before . |
| 11 | My ‘ Grudger ’ is an example of this ; it has a good memory for faces , and although fundamentally cooperative it defects if the other player has ever defected before . |