before-but

Wow, this is something I have never tried before-but it looks delish!

Avocado Ice Cream | Baking Bites 2009

Geordi had teased Data about it before-but Dr. Pulaski evidently didn't recognize the attempt at levity.

The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students) 2010

A chance in a million, that Standing Bear had been present at Chicago to hear Spotted Tail's randy recollections of twenty-five years before-but the rest of it fitted like an old shoe.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

It was the sound Erid had heard before-but now, he knew it wasn't just a croak.

Addicts Tree Riesener 2010

Comet Swift-Tuttle is not among that 10 percent-it's been observed at least twice before-but it could still pose a considerable threat.

THE SCIENCE OF DOOM 2008

I ken I should have told ye before-but I thought ye maybe wouldn't come, if I said how far.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

"I know I thanked you all before-but now I have to thank you again, with the full knowledge of what foolishly rushing in to this situation could have brought me to."

The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005

He was a fine swordsman, and he had fought men bearing steel before-but never alone, never two against one.

This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

It wasn't as if he hadn't done all of this before-but the mud figures he made would crumble, or melt in the rains, and worst of all, he simply didn't know the vast majority of the all-important prayers.

Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

He'd never seen one before-but maybe it was some funky religious symbol, a Hindu equivalent of the cross or something.

Salem Falls Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2001