Example sentences of "seen before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond this , current sensations converge with knowledge and memory and desire to make sense of the experience of the present : I not only experience this object but I recognize it — as something of a certain kind ; as yours , as mine , as something I have seen before ; and it means something to me in terms of my appetites and needs and ambitions . |
| 2 | Casey Jones , with its colourful , upbeat presentation , its production-line methods and its computer-controlled cooking , was light years away from anything seen before on British stations . |
| 3 | The integral construction of bodies , new air-sprung bogies , air conditioning , excellent sound and heat insulation , and a high standard of luxury furnishing and decor for both second and first class , and above ali strength to resist compression and buckling forces in an accident to an extent never seen before , brought a new era to BR coach design and made the HSTs deservedly popular . |
| 4 | I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive . |
| 5 | Many of the Officers and other ranks who landed on D-Day have been replaced by faces I have never seen before . |
| 6 | Please , let it not be some man she had slept with and now could not even remember ever having seen before in her life . |
| 7 | There was the same combination that I had seen before : collected in groups that seemed threatening because you were not part of them , and between these bright areas black , empty alleys full of odd forebodings . |
| 8 | The inhabitants of Vengsøya — or , at least , those near the ferry quay — watch us struggle on-shore with the kayaks with that curious air of pity , fear and interest I have seen before . |
| 9 | ‘ Not just any shit , but the turds laid by — ’ He twirls the stick again and then points at someone I never seen before . |
| 10 | And then we got to school and it was all big and confusing and there was all these boys I 'd never seen before , all with their parents and some of the kids were weird-looking with funny eyes . |
| 11 | Vivienne Westwood , current British Designer of the Year , had a very clear idea of what she was looking for : ‘ Something unorthodox that people have n't seen before . |
| 12 | Every day new private shops and kiosks open selling a range of goods simply never seen before , from pineapple juice to fax machines . |
| 13 | That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ . |
| 14 | We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before . |
| 15 | The adulation when it was all over was something that had hardly been seen before in England , even on momentous Ashes-winning occasions , and early in 1964 his efforts were rewarded with a knighthood , conferred by the Queen at Buckingham Palace . |
| 16 | His face was more animated than she had ever seen before . |
| 17 | Philip saw what he had n't seen before , a ‘ For Sale ’ notice stuck in a holly bush by the corner of the house . |
| 18 | He looked along this end of Mrs Wright 's house that he 'd never seen before . |
| 19 | There was the man Jinny had seen before , with the cold blue eyes that almost made her shudder as she met them again , and there was a boy . |
| 20 | Or was it just another side of his character I had not seen before , but that I may have suspected was always there ? |
| 21 | Yet both women brought a more intense and child-whorish eroticism to the screen than had been seen before , while retaining a suggestion of innocence at the heart of it . |
| 22 | Emily 's expression was one he had never seen before . |
| 23 | He has made me look at the world again , made me see things I had never seen before , and see familiar things in a new light . |
| 24 | There ai n't nothin' I 've not seen before under there . ’ |
| 25 | These exultations , these hymns , come so suddenly upon me like unbidden genii bearing gifts that no mortals have ever seen before . |
| 26 | The political allies of the Popular Television Association were initially limited to a handful of young Conservative backbenchers like John Profumo and Selwyn Lloyd , but they ran a public-relations campaign on a scale , and of a sophistication , which had not been seen before in Britain . |
| 27 | And to lead the horse we need to go somewhere ; perhaps around the house , across the lawn , over the concrete path , under the clothesline with flapping socks , past the dogs , and in to an environment of strange things the horse has not seen before . |
| 28 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 29 | When Waterman finally got a glimpse of the superstar he had created he saw a Kylie unlike anything he had seen before . |
| 30 | Mrs Browning began to laugh but the laugh brought on a coughing fit and , when Wilson rushed to her aid and raised her higher on the pillow , her face took on an ugly blue tinge , which she had never seen before . |