Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] before [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd never before felt such a surge of creative stimulation . |
| 2 | But she had never before met such qualities so mildly and tactfully and decoratively combined , so settled and established , so kindly displayed . |
| 3 | Here is a poem by a ten-year-old girl who had never before written any poetry . |
| 4 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
| 5 | He had never before had any control over his own finances and he was finding many demands on his purse upsetting and worrying . |
| 6 | I had never before seen such a soft light in those once proud eyes , or felt such a friendly touch of her once cold hand . |
| 7 | I had never before seen any Benedict 's sister do that . |
| 8 | The UN had never before mounted such a complex and expensive peace-keeping operation , and after an uncertain start [ see pp. 36576-77 ] its role as facilitator was widely approved . |
| 9 | She had never before contacted any of the emergency services , and she was surprised by how long the operator took to put her through to the police . |
| 10 | NICHOLAS KEPT TELLING himself that he had never before done this — as if he were somehow engaged in research and thereby exonerated . |
| 11 | At the thought of it , her whole body shook with sobs ; she had never before experienced such despairing weeping . |
| 12 | For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment . |
| 13 | Alec had never before shown any interest in Dante — or in women . |
| 14 | He had never before paid much attention to her . |