Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [adv] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rider dismounted to check , and unbelievably it was true ; although he had never before put his tongue over the bit . |
| 2 | NICHOLAS KEPT TELLING himself that he had never before done this — as if he were somehow engaged in research and thereby exonerated . |
| 3 | Hankey told Tom Jones that he had never before witnessed a Cabinet scene like it . |
| 4 | Lorrimer had eaten practically nothing , had drunk less , pushing his glass almost petulantly aside and fixing his great smouldering eyes on Domenica as if he had never before seen a woman . |
| 5 | I can well believe that he has always been in favour of a social charter in Europe , but he has never before asked us to be in Europe enjoying its disadvantages . |
| 6 | She was a witch , then , because he had never before in his life done such a thing with a girl in the street . |