Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps more exciting , however , to leave one 's discoveries to chance ; thee can be great satisfaction in wandering round an old country church and suddenly stumbling across an 18th or 19th-century Persian rug that no one has recognized before . |
| 2 | He spoke a message which the country has heard before — that taxation is too heavy , that unemployment ( 1½ million ) is too high , that we spend far too much on armaments and must get disarmament in Europe , that we must stick to Free Trade … |
| 3 | I recall the speech to which the hon. Gentleman referred and I know that he has referred before to a case similar to that which he described today . |
| 4 | His comments reflect the uncertainity of an experiment where no one under the age of 42 has voted before . |
| 5 | While it can never be legitimately said of a theory that it is true , it can hopefully be said that it is the best available , that it is better than anything that has come before . |
| 6 | Roe has won before — the 1989 Catalan Open — and shares Chandler 's view that he is ready to win again . |
| 7 | Like nothing anyone has seen before . ’ |
| 8 | I was only going to say Chairman I wish people would n't band the figures around the council chamber which nobody has seen before therefore ca n't assess . |
| 9 | I should think it might be quite amusing because it 'll be old forms that nobody has seen before . |
| 10 | It would swiftly encounter , as it has done before , a wages explosion , and lose us our edge over Europe on labour costs . |
| 11 | Thus , so far as the Tribunal is concerned , Parliament accepted a privative clause of a kind which is unprecedented in modern English law , purporting to do what no Parliament has done before — it has given an administrative tribunal the power to determine its own jurisdiction . |
| 12 | For many people it seems to mean freedom to do what someone else has done before with some success , and initially this seemed to be the best course to take . |
| 13 | Confronted with his certainty so much stronger than her own , disorientation and alienation defusing lack of desire , she gives in as she has done before . |
| 14 | ‘ You can learn all the moves and practise until you 're silly , ’ he warns , ‘ but in the end you need to put those moves together in a manner that is more efficient and effective than anybody else has done before . ’ |
| 15 | We probably spent more time watching what happens in facilities where care is provided for the elderly than anyone has done before . |
| 16 | She lost 7–5 6–3 to Seles in the quarter-finals after disposing of last year 's finalist Jana Novotna , but she showed enough , as he has done before , to show the rest of the watching world that she is a major force waiting to erupt . |
| 17 | The practice of medicine is carrying on the same way as it has done before but we 're addressing issues like quality and standards and timing and waiting lists in a way we have n't done before . |
| 18 | The pair , running for Liverpool , outclassed the rest of the field , with Dawn running five seconds better than she has done before to record 4 minutes 34.9 seconds and Clare clocking 4–36.6 an improvement of 14 seconds on her previous best . |
| 19 | Some of the pictures are American in scale — very much bigger than anything he has shown before — and this makes the resemblance more apparent . |
| 20 | ‘ In essence ’ , say Trestle , ‘ it 's a tragedy , but the story is told with all the wit , humour and theatrical panache that Trestle has produced before ’ . |
| 21 | It is a stronger team than the Prince has had before , but still understaffed , given that , as well as finding material for his speeches and meetings , they also have to research and organize his day trips and foreign tours , liaise with the press office and the Princess 's assistant private secretary , Patrick Jephson , over their diaries , as well as handle the colossal amount of mail that arrives by every post . |
| 22 | Catherine has sung before — she took over the lead role in the West End musical 42nd Street as a teenager . |
| 23 | The Newfoundland cod population has crashed before , in the 1970s , but recovered somewhat under a quota system during the 1980s . |
| 24 | Moreover , Dittmar takes a very dim view of Jansher 's behaviour , because it has occurred before . |
| 25 | Hence , prediction is reduced to a repetition of what has occurred before in similar circumstances . |
| 26 | But try and be positive about it , and say , ‘ Yes , this , I have to say this is a bad situation , , it 's not a situation which has occurred before , we are taking very positive steps to ensure that it does n't happen again , we have prosecuted Mr X , we have done whatever is appropriate . ’ |
| 27 | The possessor of what is unquestionably the world 's largest and finest collection of contemporary art , Saatchi has sold before — but never , according to the rumours , on anything like this scale . |
| 28 | You get the child who plays for safety and draws what he has drawn before . |
| 29 | Parrish has acted before in the theatre though , landing a couple of solid psycho parts essentially not a lot different from the Fritz character — who changes his name to Eli and then Bud as he escapes across the country having gunned down the demonic rich bitch Twinkle ( one of Sean Young 's better performances ) . |
| 30 | Time and again , Marco Polo boldly goes where no recording company has ventured before , pulling wonderful surprise after wonderful surprise out of the hat , and this is as good as any of them . |