Example sentences of "not [verb] it before " in BNC.

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1 It is now almost impossible to imagine how doctors did not diagnose it before .
2 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 .
3 If the Minister has not heard it before , this is another commitment for him — 4 million people would gain .
4 ‘ I had not noticed it before . ’
5 I do n't know why I 've not noticed it before .
6 Oh never mind , we 'll do it and pop down later did we not do it before ?
7 Mr Gossip jumped left at his fences which mystified Henderson , who said he has not done it before .
8 Or if you 're frightened or if you 're very anxious , if you 're gon na do something important and you 've not done it before and you get a bit anxious , you can use the ylang-ylang which is the Oil of Tranquillity .
9 Had they not done it before ?
10 He had not seen it before in his panic to ring the ambulance and get Mrs Popple to hospital .
11 The second ( 2.5.4 ) may even surprise and delight you if you 've not seen it before .
12 Yes keep working while I just explain that if you 've not had it before .
13 And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before .
14 She had not experienced it before .
15 Royce 's seminars had acquainted Eliot with the second law of thermodynamics if he had not known it before .
16 She had not liked it before , did not like it now , and the throng of tourists who had also disembarked , wearing baggy floral shorts , trussed with the straps of cameras and rucksacks , was irritating .
17 If you have not read it before , try and understand the following passage used by Dooling and Lachman :
18 The legend of the Dent vampire is in all probability nothing more than an elaborate leg-pull , but it 's worth relating in case you have n't heard it before .
19 I had n't heard it before , but I 'd already guessed that the tale would sound something like that .
20 I have n't heard it before .
21 Guess you could n't make it before . ’
22 ‘ I did n't know it before . ’
23 I move that we we approve it , and can I also er compliment the , the clerk on , I thought this an excellent document , I mean , I do n't know it before or not , but it was well put together , very concise , and I could understand it myself .
24 and catching a place up here , and he did n't catch it before .
25 Liz thought he looked appalling , and wondered why she had n't noticed it before .
26 It sounds crazy to say I had n't noticed it before , as we must have driven by ten or a dozen times , but you really do n't notice that much when you 're trying to keep your balance and play at the same time .
27 He did n't do it before and he does n't like it , but he does a bit .
28 I said I understand your busy , I said if you ca n't turn him say , then I will turn him in an hour I ca n't do it before , fine , I said at least I 'm not sitting like a prat telling him a load of rubbish
29 It did n't complement anything much , but he had n't seen it before .
30 ‘ I have n't seen it before . ’
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