Example sentences of "[conj] she have [adv] before [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Clara , confident that she would meet with no misunderstanding , managed to relate episodes that she had never before related , and when , finally , she came to the subject of the future , she awaited Clelia 's views as though they might even be of use . |
| 2 | Grainne thought it was strange that she had never before realised how many Kings of Ireland had been exiled and had later returned . |
| 3 | Julia thought that she had never before met anyone who exuded such restless strength and yet could be so gentle in his dealings with other people . |
| 4 | She had forgotten , sometimes she told herself , that she had never before known the comfort of a close , undemanding , asexual companionship with another woman . |
| 5 | The delicacy of his touch as he stroked her was such that Julia could hardly feel it at all , and yet it aroused in her a longing for him that she had never before experienced . |
| 6 | His mouth covered hers once more , masterful , demanding , drawing responses from within her that she had never before experienced . |
| 7 | His hands stroked and tantalised , sought out the hidden , sensitive places , and aroused in her longings that she had never before experienced . |
| 8 | But she had never before met such qualities so mildly and tactfully and decoratively combined , so settled and established , so kindly displayed . |
| 9 | He knew , as all the boys had always known , that she had not had the best of lives with his father , but she had never before spoken to him like this . |