Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Touche Ross spokeswoman later confessed that , although some of the team had managed a practice run the week before , ‘ when it came to the day , a lot of people on the boat had never rowed before ’ . |
| 2 | The triangular lug profile on sections of the outsole has also featured before . |
| 3 | There was a tone in his voice that Breeze had never heard before — a tone that startled her , and made her look at him with wide , bewildered eyes . |
| 4 | ‘ My friend has never skied before , ’ I panted , after picking her up out of a picket fence . |
| 5 | It was a look Charity had never seen before . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |
| 8 | The old man had never suggested before that they have a drink together ; maybe it was all part of that new world he had entered when he stood in front of Mr Albert 's mirror in his new suit . |
| 9 | Perhaps most memorable was a which left me feeling as no other opera performance had ever done before . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | This situation had never existed before . |
| 13 | His over-riding concern has been for those who are lost ; he has been an evangelist , a travelling missionary , taking the gospel to places where no Christian had ever gone before . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The newly-weds were to live further from home than any Titfords on their side of the family had ever done before . |
| 16 | Where he should be , with his cradle boon of green eyes like a magician 's , and his stature that no one in his family had ever had before , his strength and resolve . |
| 17 | Two adults in our party had barely skied before . |