Example sentences of "have never [vb pp] before [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure , disinterested altruism — something that has no place in nature , something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world . |
| 2 | The mix of own compositions and covers worked well , bringing to my attention songs I 'd never heard before from the likes of Dick Gaughan and Steve Earle . |
| 3 | Erm , I had n't actually felt that violent , I 'd been having extremes of emotion all week erm , very high , very low , very very fearful , panic attacks which I 'd never had before in my life . |
| 4 | ‘ But I am allowed to say I was deeply disappointed , because he let things go on which I 've never seen before in my time back in England . |
| 5 | Stopped , just for five minutes , just to have a quick look , and now here you are , in charge of the stall of a woman you do n't know , a woman you 've never seen before in your life , and all because someone called Harry was n't to get away with something — And that man with blue eyes was watching her again . |
| 6 | Introducing a lot of things they 've never had before in their lives I 'm afraid to say . |
| 7 | Tilda 's respect for her sister , whom she had never seen before in the possession of so much money , reduced her almost to silence ; in a hoarse whisper she asked whether they were going to get the records straight away . |
| 8 | A tall lady in dark blue velvet , with a string of agates round her neck and a golden diadem in her hair ; a lady Isabella had never seen before in her year at the court of Gwynedd . |
| 9 | ( Hence , notably in ‘ Gerontion ’ , Eliot 's ability to approximate and even conform to Jacobean blank verse , yet to depart from it smoothly when he pleased. ) Pound 's verse on the contrary was , at least after Homage to Sextus Propertius , free , not ‘ freed ’ : the rhythms that he sought and attained either had never appeared before in the language , or else had not appeared there for many centuries . |
| 10 | She would go off alone for long walks over the cliffs — something she had never done before in winter . |
| 11 | Her soft blue eyes hardened as they had never done before in her life and she met his gaze head-on . |
| 12 | Suddenly , as they arrowed in for the kill , the man-thing did something they had never experienced before in any hunted victim . |
| 13 | It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping . |
| 14 | She knew why he was doing this and she knew too that this was an intimacy she had never permitted before in her life . |
| 15 | The two clubs have never met before in the FA Cup . |
| 16 | But when you begin fishing , if it is a swim you have never fished before with a swimfeeder , it is essential that you find out how long it takes to empty so that you can set up a rhythm of casting and feeding . |
| 17 | Do something that you have never done before at least once each week . |
| 18 | You will probably do things that you have never done before in your life . |
| 19 | Talking in Leicester this week and last week to groups of black women , some black women are saying I have never thought before about being able to talk about what I am and making up my own mind . |
| 20 | They have never worked before outside their home or family shop but the concepts of a commercial society are quite familiar to them . |
| 21 | I have never busked before in my life . |