Example sentences of "[verb] never before [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is safe to say that the entire nation is filled with a believing trust in the Führer such as has never before existed to this extent . |
| 2 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 3 | Lanier , 66 , was a wealthy white property developer who had never before run for public office . |
| 4 | When he had first come to Maythorpe House as an ignorant thirteen-year-old who had never before lived in anything grander than a tiny gardener 's cottage , he had felt awed and frightened , and unable to grasp that this huge place was now his home . |
| 5 | he advanced above three hundred debased field negroes who had never before moved without the whip to a state resembling that of contented , honest and industrious servants and after paying them for their labour , tripled the annual neat [ sic ] clearance of his Estate . |
| 6 | His father turned toward him with an earnestness that Jack had never before seen in his face . |
| 7 | Such shops , offering coordinated fabrics and paper , had never before existed in France ; hitherto it had been possible to hire an interior decorator who would go into a home and suggest exclusive fabrics at exorbitant prices . |
| 8 | He had never before spoken of sleepless nights ; neither , as far as she knew , had he ever complained of any kind of illness . |
| 9 | He knew , as all the boys had always known , that she had not had the best of lives with his father , but she had never before spoken to him like this . |
| 10 | Wayward Lad was one and a half lengths further away in third , Silver Buck a tired and remote fourth , and then Ashley House stayed on up the hill to pass Combs Ditch amid cheering never before heard for a horse running fifth ! |
| 11 | A. I can see the reasoning behind your wish to introduce air into the second filter chamber , but have never before heard of running a venturi in the position you intend . |
| 12 | Now you can watch the seasons changed in The Flower Fairies Year , a brand new collection of twelve porcelain plates featuring Flower Fairies that have never before appeared on plates . |