Example sentences of "[verb] never before [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of facing the music at Wembley on September 9 , Taylor 's team will play for expenses only on a Spanish Second Division ground that holds only 25,000 spectators and has never before staged a full international match . |
| 2 | She 'd never before seen a carpet so thick that it showed vacuuming lines , like a lawn . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket , or a watch to take out of it , ’ she thought . |
| 4 | He had never before met a woman so entirely free of the constraints which he had come to associate with being female . |
| 5 | Sally-Anne had never before understood the necessity to be absolutely precise in everything she did , and Matey 's training , designed to make her a good maid , was beginning to affect her habits in every other part of her life . |
| 6 | Around half of those who replied ( 56% ) had never before visited the Library 's exhibitions , and only about a quarter ( 23% ) had previously visited exhibitions more frequently than once a year . |
| 7 | Their replies , summarized in Table 6 , showed that more than half had never before visited the Library 's Exhibition Room . |
| 8 | Hankey told Tom Jones that he had never before witnessed a Cabinet scene like it . |
| 9 | Matilda had never before seen a boy , or anyone else for that matter , held aloft by his ears alone . |
| 10 | Lorrimer had eaten practically nothing , had drunk less , pushing his glass almost petulantly aside and fixing his great smouldering eyes on Domenica as if he had never before seen a woman . |
| 11 | Tug skippers , who had never before acknowledged the presence of the moored barges , called out , or gave the danger signal — live rapid blasts in succession . |
| 12 | The author of the Life of Wilfrid , who represents Wilfrid as persuading the king and queen to accept the word of God and as preaching to a people who had never before heard the Gospel , undoubtedly exaggerates the paganism of the southern Saxons , for Bede reveals from non-Wilfridian sources , first , that Aethelwealh had married a Christian princess and had been baptized himself and , second , that a number of ealdormen and thegns had likewise received baptism , with the priests , Eappa , Padda , Burghelm and Aeddi ministering to the common people either at the time of Aethelwealh 's conversion or subsequently ( HE IV , 13 ) . |
| 13 | As far as she knew , he had never before used the recreational facilities at OBEX . |
| 14 | She had forgotten , sometimes she told herself , that she had never before known the comfort of a close , undemanding , asexual companionship with another woman . |
| 15 | He was encouraged by Garvey to polish it , but would have done so anyway : he had never before owned a mirror . |
| 16 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 17 | The post-1950 returnees were joined by some who had never before left the villages . |
| 18 | He had previously stayed at the hotel on twelve or thirteen occasions , but had never before occupied a room on the ground floor . |
| 19 | " We have never before had the honour to carry such an important representative of the United States of America to Saigon . " |
| 20 | I have never before had the privilege to work for such an environmentally-conscious , safe , dynamic and forward-thinking company . |
| 21 | It is all very well to be phlegmatic and hope that all will come right in the end but surely it would be better to stimulate discussion with a view to obtaining fresh ideas on how to deal with new circumstances which have never before confronted the capitalist world ? |