Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it before " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had after all all heard it before , it was n't as if this number actually needed any introduction . |
| 2 | In Balakirev 's Islamey , for instance , he allows the beautiful second subject to sing out , slower and more meaningful , than I have ever heard it before , while his deadly accuracy and exquisite pianissimos produce a stillness in Liszt 's Les Jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este that is rare indeed for such a fast moving piece . |
| 3 | The noteworthy thing , considering this half.century of official recognition , is the regularity with which the multi.media library concept was hailed as a new idea and canvassed with a sense of surprised discovery , as if no library or librarian had ever considered it before . |
| 4 | From almost every hilltop it was possible to see the great column of smoke , still far , but much nearer than they had ever seen it before . |
| 5 | ‘ You ever seen it before ? ’ |
| 6 | Well , the way I 'd always done it before was , change it to value , before I combined it . |
| 7 | We 've never had hardly seen it before because I have n't lawn in that book before have I ? |
| 8 | I mean , everybody took loads of everything in those days but if you have an incredible tour schedule and you can find a way of having extra energy , which you can get with cocaine , you overdo it if you have n't ever had it before in such huge quantities , and you 're that big , and girls come to the dressing room afterwards , and everybody gives you free packets , and suddenly you 're everybody 's pal . |
| 9 | Have you ever spelt it before ? |
| 10 | He 's always eaten it before . |
| 11 | Not that he 'd ever admitted it before , even to himself . |
| 12 | But she , who had run fifteen thousand miles to find her freedom , she who had driven Jim out of the house rather than wash his dirty teacups , was now a slave to someone who never washed their cups , who was never interested in her ideas , who never wanted to talk , hear , understand , sympathise , who hurt one 's body as no one had ever hurt it before and who chained one forever to mountains , not just of washing-up , but of washing itself . |
| 13 | Harris 's companion had also visited It before . |
| 14 | ‘ Slow down your eating ’ is excellent classic advice for those with a weight problem — and many of those who have struggled long in the battle of the bulge have probably read it before , and even tried to follow it . |
| 15 | I had never really felt it before or known what it meant . |
| 16 | He had n't never even done it before . |
| 17 | At an informal level , they had not wholly lacked it before ; £3000 had been sent to them in August 1559 , and in January the English Admiral Winter had appeared in the forth , officially searching for pirates but actually cutting the French troops ' line of communication between their strongholds in Fife and Leith . |
| 18 | you know I rather did it before because if you do it after that 's when the job situation becomes a bit of problem , look at John , look what 's happening there |
| 19 | sometimes get it before |
| 20 | Somehow she had n't quite believed it before . |
| 21 | ‘ He said he 'd never prescribed it before but he was willing to let me try it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I never realized it before , but we 've got to do it our way … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I never asked it before . |
| 26 | It was so easy to flatter her , she took it like a sixteen year old wino 's never heard it before . |
| 27 | ‘ Unusual name , Natasha , I 've never heard it before , ’ Maggie commented . |
| 28 | She did n't know what it meant ; she had never heard it before . |
| 29 | Even though Caroline had never heard it before , she knew immediately to whom it belonged . |
| 30 | I 've always made the list out and you 've never queried it before , well not like that . |