Example sentences of "he [verb] never before [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can well believe that he has always been in favour of a social charter in Europe , but he has never before asked us to be in Europe enjoying its disadvantages . |
| 2 | He had never before had any control over his own finances and he was finding many demands on his purse upsetting and worrying . |
| 3 | He had never before resented one of Domenica 's lovers . |
| 4 | Suddenly , Rildia Bee heard the piece being played exquisitely in the next room , and beheld her own tiny to perched on the bench playing an instrument he had never before touched , and playing it already with transcendent genius . |
| 5 | Hankey told Tom Jones that he had never before witnessed a Cabinet scene like it . |
| 6 | He had never before met a woman so entirely free of the constraints which he had come to associate with being female . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had never before seen man and woman regard , consider and touch each other as man with man . |
| 9 | NICHOLAS KEPT TELLING himself that he had never before done this — as if he were somehow engaged in research and thereby exonerated . |
| 10 | He had been truly godforsaken today , he was thinking as he sank ; he had never before done so much violence to anyone . |
| 11 | If he was prepared to fight the Old Man on it as well as one of his juniors , then there was muscle in the man he had never before recognized . |
| 12 | He had never before spoken of sleepless nights ; neither , as far as she knew , had he ever complained of any kind of illness . |
| 13 | His rider dismounted to check , and unbelievably it was true ; although he had never before put his tongue over the bit . |
| 14 | So Mimi walked out , and suddenly he faced a kind of emotional turmoil he had never before experienced . |
| 15 | He had never before paid much attention to her . |
| 16 | As far as she knew , he had never before used the recreational facilities at OBEX . |
| 17 | He was encouraged by Garvey to polish it , but would have done so anyway : he had never before owned a mirror . |