Sentence examples for phrase before from inspiring English sources

Mr. Romney has used the "small things" phrase before, too.

No one has used that phrase before, right?

"I had not heard that phrase before," Mr. McCain said.

I'd never heard that phrase before and honestly didn't know what it meant.

As to Mr. Bush's mention of the millennium goals, he said, "As far as I know, the president has never uttered that phrase before".

It was almost as if we had never heard the phrase before, it suddenly seemed so unfamiliar, so unclear, so wrong.

My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three … I have sung the praises of this phrase before, as the greatest parenthetical aside in literature.

In a rapid damage limitation operation, Cameron's spin doctors said he had used the phrase before, as leader of the opposition, in remarks aimed either at Gordon Brown or David Miliband.

They weren't quite sure where they had heard those same old phrases before, but they had, and they felt lied to, because we have been lied to so many times before by every politician.

For a few of them it appeared to be the case that they had not distinguished between the three phrases before, and reactions during the interviews varied from intrigue to bemusement.

The parenthetical phrase translates as "before paralysis" or "before stillness".