Example sentences of "had never [vb pp] before [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | She would go off alone for long walks over the cliffs — something she had never done before in winter . |
| 5 | Her soft blue eyes hardened as they had never done before in her life and she met his gaze head-on . |
| 6 | Suddenly , as they arrowed in for the kill , the man-thing did something they had never experienced before in any hunted victim . |
| 7 | It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping . |
| 8 | She knew why he was doing this and she knew too that this was an intimacy she had never permitted before in her life . |