Sentence examples for phrases before from inspiring English sources

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.

And I reached that limit again when a Facebook friend posted an article about a Seattle school that officially banned the term "Easter egg". According to the article on MyNorthwest.com, the school decreed that staff instead refer to the holiday treats as "spring spheres". I've heard ridiculous PC phrases before, but never one that's harder to say three times fast.

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.

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 have sung the praises of this phrase before, as the greatest parenthetical aside in literature.

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