Example sentences of "[verb] never before [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can well believe that he has always been in favour of a social charter in Europe , but he has never before asked us to be in Europe enjoying its disadvantages . |
| 2 | The following might be regarded as excessive restrictions : ( 1 ) an attempt to prevent a qualified solicitor from setting up a specialist practice in a field in which his former firm has never before undertaken work and has no plans to start accepting instructions ; ( 2 ) an attempt to prevent an outgoing partner from accepting instructions from any person or firm ( whether or not a client or former client of his former firm ) within a prescribed area ; ( 3 ) a general area restraint where the outgoing partner 's former firm has its offices in a location where competition is already intense . |
| 3 | It is safe to say that the entire nation is filled with a believing trust in the Führer such as has never before existed to this extent . |
| 4 | Mark has never before met anybody who says , right in the middle of making love , ‘ Golly , this is fun . ’ |
| 5 | Etherington-Smith has known this extraordinarily talented designer , renowned as ‘ the only German to conquer Paris without weapons ’ , for many years , but has never before profiled him in depth ( see page 200 ) . |
| 6 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 7 | Instead of facing the music at Wembley on September 9 , Taylor 's team will play for expenses only on a Spanish Second Division ground that holds only 25,000 spectators and has never before staged a full international match . |
| 8 | She 'd never before felt such a surge of creative stimulation . |
| 9 | I 'd never before realised so clearly how drinking makes you want to drink . |
| 10 | When we were north of the border recently for the Scottish Music Show , before I 'd had time to look round myself , people were rushing over to describe a monster the like of which they 'd never before seen . |
| 11 | She 'd never before seen a carpet so thick that it showed vacuuming lines , like a lawn . |
| 12 | She came again and again , as he ate out her genitals with a lust she 'd never before experienced , and swallowed her slimy mucus as if her vagina was secreting the food of the gods . |
| 13 | ‘ It is the way it seemed to me , ’ Ven stated , but then qualified — and her heart started to thunder again , ‘ But then , until I met you , I 'd never before experienced — jealousy . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket , or a watch to take out of it , ’ she thought . |
| 15 | I 've never before seen cadaveric spasm in a case of homicidal manual throttling , and it 's interesting . |
| 16 | Once you 've got the rating , you know that you 've never before enjoyed such flying freedom . |
| 17 | But she had never before met such qualities so mildly and tactfully and decoratively combined , so settled and established , so kindly displayed . |
| 18 | Julia thought that she had never before met anyone who exuded such restless strength and yet could be so gentle in his dealings with other people . |
| 19 | He had never before met a woman so entirely free of the constraints which he had come to associate with being female . |
| 20 | Tom had never before ridden pillion on a motorbike , but Andy the neighbour had a spare crash helmet . |
| 21 | Lanier , 66 , was a wealthy white property developer who had never before run for public office . |
| 22 | Sally-Anne had never before understood the necessity to be absolutely precise in everything she did , and Matey 's training , designed to make her a good maid , was beginning to affect her habits in every other part of her life . |
| 23 | Here is a poem by a ten-year-old girl who had never before written any poetry . |
| 24 | He had never before resented one of Domenica 's lovers . |
| 25 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
| 26 | Around half of those who replied ( 56% ) had never before visited the Library 's exhibitions , and only about a quarter ( 23% ) had previously visited exhibitions more frequently than once a year . |
| 27 | Their replies , summarized in Table 6 , showed that more than half had never before visited the Library 's Exhibition Room . |
| 28 | Suddenly , Rildia Bee heard the piece being played exquisitely in the next room , and beheld her own tiny to perched on the bench playing an instrument he had never before touched , and playing it already with transcendent genius . |
| 29 | Grainne thought it was strange that she had never before realised how many Kings of Ireland had been exiled and had later returned . |
| 30 | She supposed she had never before realised just how much time Eleanor and Julius spent together , or how close their work brought them . |