Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it before " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard it before , remember . |
| 2 | It was n't that they were prudish , I could tell they 'd heard it before . |
| 3 | And you , again , you , I 'm sure you 'd heard it before , but were difficult to say , is it , is it there . |
| 4 | I 'd had a feeling I 'd seen it before , but I 'd no idea they were that good friends ! |
| 5 | I 'd seen it before but could n't remember it you know . |
| 6 | I knew she 'd said it before . |
| 7 | She 'd done it before and she could do it again , especially as so much was at stake . |
| 8 | " You sound as if you 'd done it before , " said Anna . |
| 9 | Erm , the problem is that this should , this agenda was prepared over the Christmas period basically , and , and we started on the preparations of an economic development strategy in , in accordance with the way we 'd done it before , which was basically a strategy of what we were going to do ourselves . |
| 10 | You 'd done you 'd done it before ? |
| 11 | would n't it have been better if they 'd done it before |
| 12 | I thought you 'd done it before |
| 13 | Well I just to well he 'd done it before And I said to them , Oh captain 'll take you . |
| 14 | The staff had heard it before on numerous occasions but nothing as severe or as noisy as on this particular night . |
| 15 | ‘ The crying was so loud and so wonderful that it made the people astounded unless they had heard it before ’ ; she ‘ made wondrous faces and expressions ’ too . |
| 16 | Not that they needed to hear what Mr Evans had to say because they had heard it before . |
| 17 | Rostov queried the word , although he had heard it before in connection with the campaign to come . |
| 18 | But this time the voice that answered her was deep and rich — and she had heard it before . |
| 19 | She had heard it before — not often , but always with Luke . |
| 20 | I 'll tell you about Penny Lane , my tiniest youth , I was tiny , so tiny , too tiny to spit on , and my friend Chock who lived in the bathroom radiator , hissing low inside my head , shrivelling at the clink of my mother 's heels in the hallway , holding his breath , whispering , a lady is coming , dancing to the plaid of the bathroom tiles and to the records my father played ; and the first time we heard ‘ Penny Lane ’ , we knew we had heard it before . |
| 21 | I listened to his speech and thought that I had heard it before . |
| 22 | But by that very defence they have restored free speech to areas in this country where organised Socialist and Communist opposition had prevented it before in open public meeting . ’ |
| 23 | I had noticed it before . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His stance , his poise — Quinn had seen it before . |
| 26 | Ramsay had seen it before , but had never been inside . |
| 27 | Frankie had seen it before and thought I would n't like it and tried to dissuade me from going in . |
| 28 | I had seen it before , many times , as a child . |
| 29 | Rincewind tried to remember where he had seen it before . |
| 30 | No one had done it before . |