Example sentences of "have [adv] [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 | The article was accompanied by that old picture you 've all seen before of Jonny Woodward on Beau Geste at Froggatt , described in the caption as a ‘ prime potential target for bolting ’ . |
| 5 | Just as Ella had cared for the poor and the prostitute whom no one had wanted to know so Eva began to appreciate feelings she had only known before in her work in Africa . |
| 6 | Edwards said : ‘ The most I had ever scored before for Wigan was four tries — I never dreamt I 'd score ten . |
| 7 | His latest speech seemed to go further than he had ever gone before in advocating force to achieve the kind of England he wanted . |
| 8 | Her duties over , she played chess with him in the evening , or childish card and board games with him and Matey , laughed , talked and read , in some odd way enjoying herself in this hard life more than she had ever done before in her old soft one . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Introducing a lot of things they 've never had before in their lives I 'm afraid to say . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( 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 . |
| 15 | She would go off alone for long walks over the cliffs — something she had never done before in winter . |
| 16 | Her soft blue eyes hardened as they had never done before in her life and she met his gaze head-on . |
| 17 | Suddenly , as they arrowed in for the kill , the man-thing did something they had never experienced before in any hunted victim . |
| 18 | It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping . |
| 19 | She knew why he was doing this and she knew too that this was an intimacy she had never permitted before in her life . |
| 20 | These chemical reactions would normally proceed very slowly were it not for Nature 's invention of complex molecules called enzymes , which we have also met before in this chapter . |
| 21 | The two clubs have never met before in the FA Cup . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Do something that you have never done before at least once each week . |
| 24 | You will probably do things that you have never done before in your life . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They have never worked before outside their home or family shop but the concepts of a commercial society are quite familiar to them . |
| 27 | I have never busked before in my life . |