Example sentences of "have never [be] [vb pp] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Thurn und Taxis post 1489–1794 ’ , organised in conjunction with the family archivist , Martin Dallmeier , includes paintings , graphic work and silver , much of which has never been exhibited before . |
| 2 | It is the occasional unknown specimen which can prove unnerving , the creature which has never been seen before in any swamp or tropical rainforest , mountain cave , zoo or bestiary … |
| 3 | The award of the Nobel prize to Rigoberta Menchu means that Guatemala is exposed to international scrutiny in a way it has never been exposed before . |
| 4 | Estimate , instead , the sheer physical task that is being contemplated : to build a ‘ Stansted at Stanley ’ would be to do something that has never been done before in the whole of history . |
| 5 | ‘ It has never been done before . |
| 6 | This planning is being done in a way that it has never been done before and I 'm surprised they have n't grasped that . |
| 7 | Carly 's mother said : ‘ The fact this has never been done before in Britain does n't worry me . |
| 8 | A node is only added to the OPEN list if it has never been created before . |
| 9 | The leaps of the first phrase , with their chordal implications ; change into a falling scale pattern , while the impulsive , staccato dotted rhythm changes to a series of contrastingly smooth legato quaver runs , quite different in character : In the March from Aida ( Example 25 ) , after a rather long first phrase of three bars , there is a complete change to material which has never been used before . |
| 10 | It is one of three with this design , each of which has a different central motif and surround , and has never been published before . |
| 11 | The concept of running a road bridge over a listed , 140-year-old railway viaduct seems simple enough but has never been tried before in this country . |
| 12 | If the ruse , which has never been tried before , fails a flotilla of small boats will be used in horseshoe formation in an attempt to shepherd the whales to safety . |
| 13 | Crichlow stood on the finish pontoon with a grin like a piano keyboard while the Canadian team supporters made a din the like of which has never been known before from Canadians . |
| 14 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that since 1979 the Government have introduced more training places and a wider range of training courses both in width and in depth , in a way that has never been attempted before ? |
| 15 | She 'd never been thrashed before , apart from the half dozen strokes of the cane suffered at Holmsly Manor . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've never been kissed before . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's just that I 've never been deported before . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ This is my 11th war but I 've never been shot before . |
| 19 | ‘ Ye 've never been fucked before , I do n't think . ’ |
| 20 | I 've never been throttled before . ’ |
| 21 | I 've never been painted before . ’ |
| 22 | To rapturous applause he told them : ‘ For the next two-and-a-half hours I am going to work your asses like you 've never been worked before . |
| 23 | I 've never been nicked before , I thought , I wonder what it 's like ? |
| 24 | I meant the people who gather by the sea and the noise and the colours and the smell of frying , but Syl had gone pale and sworn at me , using a word I had never been called before , and saying only a moron would say she did n't like the sea . |
| 25 | But the possibility of health care being eligible for Objective 1 support had never been voiced before . |
| 26 | Their other sister , Jane , had married Robert Fellowes , a member of the Queen 's permanent staff , the year before ; and , given the rest of the Spencer family 's connections with the Royal family , the surprise was that she had never been invited before . |
| 27 | His heart , which had never been touched before , was filled completely with his love for her . |
| 28 | Instead , she grasped him as he had never been grasped before . |
| 29 | That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ . |
| 30 | We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before . |