Example sentences of "not see before " in BNC.

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1 I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive .
2 Or was it just another side of his character I had not seen before , but that I may have suspected was always there ?
3 There ai n't nothin' I 've not seen before under there . ’
4 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 .
5 It was accompanied by a street exhibition on the political history of Czechoslovakia from its foundation in 1918 until the present , again using of lot of materials not seen before .
6 If new symptoms previously not seen before appear , then the remedy is not the best choice , because the symptoms are not being cured by the remedy , so dosing is stopped .
7 17.33 With regard to spelling , the aim should be that by the end of compulsory schooling pupils should be able to spell confidently most of the words they are likely to need to use frequently in their writing ; to recognise those aspects of English spelling that are systematic ; to make a sensible attempt to spell words that they have not seen before ; to check their work for misspellings and to use a dictionary appropriately .
8 ‘ Anyway I 'm a twitcher , one of these mad guys who goes anywhere to see a bird he 's not seen before .
9 Last summer the common fluttered with holly blues , which I had not seen before .
10 Moves he had not seen before , had not known existed .
11 She motioned to a man I had not seen before , striking in appearance , with a shock of grey hair and immaculately dressed .
12 And those in charge strutted along the lines and there was an anger at their faces that Holly had not seen before .
13 A really splendid piece of propaganda artwork which I have not seen before .
14 The group is trying to avoid the cry of ‘ not another one ’ by pointing out that the scheme has one or two extras that we have not seen before .
15 At the gate stood her partner , a young man Alice had not seen before .
16 One boy I have not seen before has the perfect Masai physique , tall and slender but muscular like a high jumper 's .
17 not seen before , singing on a branch .
18 A man entered who I had not seen before .
19 This time Miss Havisham was in another room , which I had not seen before .
20 It was opened by a man he had not seen before .
21 Felicity 's jaw jutted in a way Alex had not seen before .
22 What happened during the 1980s was that we measured more things , more systematically , and published the measurements to an extent not seen before .
23 He said : ‘ Never a week goes by but you get something you have never faced before , or something comes in a fashion you have not seen before , so there are plenty of challenges . ’
24 Such a well-developed economy led to the greater exploitation of geological resources , and the English landscape witnessed quarrying of stone and ores on a scale not seen before — in the Forest of Dean ( coal and iron ) , Derbyshire and the Mendips ( lead ) , Cornwall ( tin ) and Dolaucothi in Wales ( gold ) — although most areas were worked and reworked later on and it is usually impossible to isolate the Roman element .
25 He began to talk to the Colonel with animation I 'd not seen before about hunting deer from helicopters in the South Island .
26 Miss Broome — Ianthe — the vicar 's sister-in-law — Prudence , Jenny , was it ? — or one of those fashionable names that often seemed so unsuitable for their bearers — and two men whom he had not seen before .
27 Prompt at four o'clock , Dr Neil , complainingly dressed in his best suit at Matey 's request — ‘ Do I have to ? ’ he had said , rolling his eyes at McAllister — Matey in a bottle-green velvet gown which McAllister had not seen before , McAllister in her best sateen skirt , white blouse , and small lacy cap with streamers , were all sitting in the parlour when the doorbell rang .
28 He is stopped at the door by an emaciated woman with a grotesque burn injury , whom I have not seen before .
29 There is a feeling of partnership and a commitment to partnership that I have not seen before .
30 I have just met some colleagues in the House — and I do not dare to name the Opposition Members — who asked me questions about the amendment because there were points that they could not understand or that they had not seen before .
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