Sentence examples for had not been before from inspiring English sources

For three months, Mr. Obama was tested in a way he had not been before, his seemingly detached initial response to the crisis evolving into a tougher approach to face down a multinational corporation.

However, I know a good proportion of that was people who were saying: 'Usually I would be putting up with this, I would kind of shake it off.'" Lowles told the MPs that his group's research showed that the referendum debate did not appear to prompt people to become prejudiced if they had not been before, but did seemingly influence those already holding such views.

If he had not been before, he was certainly now a national figure — a figure making it clear that secession would follow anything other than a Breckinridge election.

And the results are certified now, which they had not been before.

He might have served his material better if he had not been before the camera.

Why were "lunatics" locked away from the 17th century onwards, when they had not been before, and why have asylums been abolished since the 1960s?

So many places I had not been before--Pico Rivera, the genuine Mexican rodeo ring in Whittier; El Premier, the Mariachi club in Bell Ramona Gardenss, the housing complex in Boyle Heights (itself a revelation).

"QNX is being applied now in a place it hasn't been before," he said.

For those who haven't been before, the word "burner" has a certain connotation.

"We're in territory we haven't been before," she said.

"They're a little bit more adventurous; they go to places I haven't been before".