Example sentences of "he have [adv] [verb] before " in BNC.
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1 | Playing black yesterday , Short again surprised Karpov with an opening variation he has never played before . |
2 | The King , he decided , ‘ must wrestle with himself in a way he has never done before , and if he will let me , I will help him . |
3 | Sometimes the maintenance engineer is dealing with a type of failure he has never had before . |
4 | This year , the phoenix has risen from its ashes , a phoenix in brighter plumage than he has ever worn before . |
5 | It was so far outside anything he 'd ever seen before that his mind was n't letting him worry about it . |
6 | He still shot a 68 , driving better than he 'd ever done before , using a club acquired from Eamonn Darcy only a month before . |
7 | This was unlike anything he 'd ever heard before . |
8 | The sheep had gone strangely quiet and there was a queer thundering noise that he 'd never heard before . |
9 | It was some music he 'd never heard before , but he turned it up loud anyway and took a deep breath and settled back into his seat . |
10 | He looked along this end of Mrs Wright 's house that he 'd never seen before . |
11 | But he rode hard to the end of the track and when he reached Baby Boy 's white cross he hesitated , then he turned right , into the mountains , something that he 'd never done before . |
12 | She 'd explained that he 'd be staying away for the two nights , which he 'd never done before ; she only hoped she 'd explained it well enough . |
13 | He says he did a deal with a man in a pub , a man whose name he ca n't remember and he 'd never met before . ’ |
14 | He worked in a fair frenzy for two hours , making demands of the paint he 'd never made before , plastering it on with palette knife and fingers , attempting to capture at least the shape and proportion of the thing 's head and neck . |
15 | The cool cream , and the expert manipulation of her dancing fingers produced a hard-on like he 'd never had before . |
16 | Pressing his foot to the floor , Nate Springfield drove as he 'd never driven before … |
17 | Coupled with a wave of popular sympathy for Gaddafi as a bereaved father , resentment at what was seen as Washington 's bully-boy tactics appeared to have rallied the Libyans behind him with a solidarity he had rarely enjoyed before . |
18 | Vitor enquired , in a sardonic reminder of a phrase he had once used before . |
19 | Unlike anything he had ever felt before . |
20 | The intensity was more than he had ever felt before . |
21 | Gazzer felt closer to Marie now than he had ever done before , and it mattered to him very much that she should take him seriously . |
22 | The same hand tapped Charlie on the shoulder a moment later , and off he ran , faster than he had ever run before , despite having to carry a rifle in one hand and a pack on his back . |
23 | His latest speech seemed to go further than he had ever gone before in advocating force to achieve the kind of England he wanted . |
24 | The boy turned away , the fluidity of the sudden movement — so unlike anything he had ever seen before — surprising Hammond . |
25 | Importantly for Nicholson , this quirk in the social order was all that was needed to give him the kick-start he required , and it also provided him with more money than he had ever earned before . |
26 | He spoke more seriously than he had ever spoken before . |
27 | But it was like no music he had ever experienced before . |
28 | Forgetting his altered status here , he drove around to the stables and , as he had always done before , saw to his own horses before entering the house via the kitchen premises . |
29 | Instead of lifting her into the saddle first , as he had always done before , he mounted Chalon , turned the horse in a tight circle to present its left flank to Isabel , and extended an imperative hand . |
30 | There seemed nothing left for him to do but go back to London , provide Fiona with some trumped-up evidence of adultery by spending the night with a prostitute — something he had never done before — and try to find a job . |