Example sentences of "[pers pn] before but " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Seen you before but I ca n't think who you are ’ sort of look . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't like to tell you before but I 've learned to be a dab hand at tapping the boots myself . |
| 3 | certainly , and my Lord my problem is I 'd liked to see them before I cross-examine Mr the er , the next witness cos he , he was the the officer in charge of brochures , er I do n't know whether the defendants can get , the plaintiffs can get them before but er , I mention it now , the second application my Lord , er your Lordship recalls that Mr evidence is at a meeting of , he brought up his concerns about the accuracy of the inflation sentence in the brochure and a board meeting in , no board meeting to that effect has been disclosed |
| 4 | ‘ It has happened to me before but this is the longest period . |
| 5 | Not that I fancied him before but . |
| 6 | To head her media team the princess selected easy-going Australian Geoff Crawford who had never worked for her before but whose loyalty was assured by members of her household . |
| 7 | We have tried to use it before but the mountain reception is far from good . |
| 8 | He had liked it terrifically when he had seen it before but had n't wanted to say : it seemed girlish to him to think anything of an animal . |
| 9 | ‘ He said he 'd never prescribed it before but he was willing to let me try it . |
| 10 | He 'd never done it before but thought it sounded like harmless fun . |
| 11 | ‘ I wo n't promise anything , ’ she said following him , ‘ I 've never tackled a job like it before but I might just be able to make a built-up boot for you . ’ |
| 12 | Do n't know why we never realised it before but Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the company 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock , making him worth about $60m . |
| 13 | Do n't know why we never realized it before but Sun chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the firm 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock . |
| 14 | He has read it before but he dips into it from time to time as a priest might consult the Bible in preparation for a sermon , or a poisoner Feltman 's Toxicology in preparation for a murder . |
| 15 | Yes , you 've heard it before but JOHN ROBB reckons that World Of Twist really have come up with one of the singles of the year in ‘ The Storm ’ . |
| 16 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |
| 17 | I thought I 'd seen something like it before but the woman came over and I had to move away before I could look at it more closely . |
| 18 | Yes , you 've heard it before but JOHN ROBB reckons that World Of Twist really have come up with one of the singles of the year in ‘ The Storm ’ . |
| 19 | Erm we are renumbering some points in that one , erm we were trying to avoid it before but I ca n't seem any way of avoiding it here because these are major new things . |
| 20 | I mean Tina said , I I have n't done it before but if you need a scribe , I 'll come in . |
| 21 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 22 | We have never done it before but we are going to have to do it from . ’ |
| 23 | yes , it was in a bloody scrap yard and this Jack come to me we had he had mentioned it before but he said we said we 're not bothered , you know , he wo n't er that was in there . |
| 24 | Been to it before but not for a long time . |
| 25 | I 'd seen it before but could n't remember it you know . |
| 26 | Actually , we 've seen it before but they 've got a huge big and it did n't look that big . |
| 27 | The other week and I 'd never had it before but er I liked it . |