Example sentences of "have never [vb pp] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deacon 's structure involves two complementary shapes joined at right angles ; shapes that one has never seen before but one recognises as familiar . |
| 2 | In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ? |
| 3 | I was n't too keen on this cheek to cheek business , with men I 'd never seen before and did n't know the names of , but I kept on telling myself not to be standoffish and to relax a bit , but as for jiving — no , I could n't do that . |
| 4 | He even had on a collar and tie , which I 'd never seen before and which he would tug at every now and then as if it were too tight . |
| 5 | ‘ I was a bit overwhelmed when she kissed me like that because we 'd never met before and it was in public . |
| 6 | If they 've never advertised before which is unlikely if we 're going for high fli you know high flier |
| 7 | So that 's that 's something that you 've never done before an equation you 've st perhaps never even heard of calcium sulphate . |
| 8 | Something I 've never done before or since in my life . |
| 9 | The pictures you 've never seen before |
| 10 | If you have the temerity you can go to any club anywhere , pick up a round and spend three hours — did I say three hours ? — with people you 've never met before and who have no idea who you are . |
| 11 | I mean , you can get on with people like that that you 've never met before you co , to get on at college exactly the same . |
| 12 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 13 | Some of them I had never seen before and some were there to satisfy their curiosity . |
| 14 | I walked up to the bar , passing several people I had never seen before who were obviously volunteers . |
| 15 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 16 | Bob , arriving at the office before Dyson one morning , found a man he had never seen before working at poor old Eddy 's desk . |
| 17 | as if we had never met before and this was some silly party game . |
| 18 | The pair had never met before teaming up in a new-look Reds attack . |
| 19 | She had never realized before that Adam had grown to look so like his father . |
| 20 | Anyway , the Americans were swearing like troopers , using language that he , Cyprian , had never heard before and hoped never to hear again ; then in stepped the British sergeant , who was quite out of this world … |
| 21 | It was something I had never done before and never would again , and it gave me great satisfaction . |
| 22 | There was an agony inside him which he had never felt before and he closed his eyes briefly . |
| 23 | She filled him with a kind of exultation he had never experienced before and he found himself shaking his head . |
| 24 | Such a swing had never happened before and would not happen this time . |
| 25 | It was something that had never happened before and she stood for a moment trying to control the thoughts that raced through her head . |
| 26 | No no that was , that was erm a com a completely er something which had never happened before |
| 27 | The teams have never met before and LSH take the opportunity to add Neil James to their 18 man squad . |
| 28 | They have stories that need telling as opposed to a plot that most of us have never heard before and which make us feel uncomfortable . |
| 29 | ‘ I have never played before but it is something which has always appealed to me , and it should be good for my powers of co-ordination , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Nobody wants a florid letter from someone they have never seen before but as an actor your style and personality must come through sufficiently — a bare list of parts played wo n't convey much . |