I've encountered before

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

This surprised me, as any religious fan I've encountered before has been pretty "chatty", but thanks to those below who were willing to help us mop up our confusion.

"Engaging the artist this way is not like anything I've encountered before, or at least not to this level," said Arthur Cohen, a marketing consultant for cultural institutions whose firm, LaPlaca Cohen, has been involved in the museum's efforts.

That's a very different villain than I've encountered before.

Oleg was different from anyone I had encountered before in one crucial respect: He talked.

Still, there was something about these two that felt different from those I had encountered before.

I had hoped above all to visit the parish church, dedicated to St Claud the Cantankerous, not a saint I have encountered before.

But what it's really like to be on serious drugs, and how to live alongside people who are regular users, was not something I had encountered before.

Looking at the photograph, I knew that Six-Mile Mary had neither ancestors nor kin but had invented herself, too powerful to consider beauty, and so her beauty surpassed any I had encountered before.

I knew that the time pressures built into the shorter schedule were likely to encourage the kind of superficial revision I had encountered before, and I resolved to somehow use the longer class periods to bring the revision process into the classroom.

Eating animals, wearing animals, experimenting on animals, killing animals for sport: all these practices, so resolutely normal to us, will be seen as the barbarities they are, and we will come to view "speciesism" -- a neologism I had encountered before only in jokes -- as a form of discrimination as indefensible as racism or anti-Semitism.

After a frantic afternoon with a surprisingly large number of mishaps from my favorite airline, the five people I had encountered before you were patronizing, belittling and rude.