Example sentences of "have never before [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd never before seen a carpet so thick that it showed vacuuming lines , like a lawn . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket , or a watch to take out of it , ’ she thought . |
| 3 | He had never before met a woman so entirely free of the constraints which he had come to associate with being female . |
| 4 | Hankey told Tom Jones that he had never before witnessed a Cabinet scene like it . |
| 5 | Matilda had never before seen a boy , or anyone else for that matter , held aloft by his ears alone . |
| 6 | Lorrimer had eaten practically nothing , had drunk less , pushing his glass almost petulantly aside and fixing his great smouldering eyes on Domenica as if he had never before seen a woman . |
| 7 | He was encouraged by Garvey to polish it , but would have done so anyway : he had never before owned a mirror . |
| 8 | He had previously stayed at the hotel on twelve or thirteen occasions , but had never before occupied a room on the ground floor . |