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 . ’ |