Example sentences of "[verb] [been] there before " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the more you invest in curious methods of murder — your melting ice-dagger , your piano-key trigger — the more you increase the risk that some ingenious author has been there before you . |
| 2 | Other unique material in the Southern Collection includes the unpublished manuscript notebooks of the distinguished theatre historian , William John Lawrence , who was born in Dublin in 1862 , and of whom it was once said that to whatever aspect of theatre history the student may turn , Lawrence will have been there before him . |
| 3 | The prunes were good but with three extra stones in the juice Christopher wondered who might have been there before him . |
| 4 | Wallington flourished under a headmaster who had been there before the War , who grew roses under the class-room windows , and trees around the playing-field . |
| 5 | Whoever had been there before me did n't know about the spare key because the glass in the top half of the door was shattered and the door was open . |
| 6 | But Mr Evans had been there before her … |
| 7 | Only two of the masters had been there before the war . |
| 8 | James ' research for this brilliant book had taken him to the archives at Bordeaux , whereupon he discovered that his fellow Trinidadian , Eric Williams , had been there before him . |
| 9 | When the rest got back to the pageant carts , local Guildsmen had been there before them . |
| 10 | As I suspected , Carella had been there before me . |
| 11 | And as the boat station had been there before nineteen sixty six , probably a hundred years before nineteen sixty six , it was then claimed that this person had adverse possession , which in short , is squatter 's rights . |
| 12 | He 's already known all the knocks and all the hardships , he 's been there before us . |
| 13 | That 's why the apostle could say , we do n't have a high priest , who 's not touched with the feelings of our infirmities , he 's been there before it , he was tempting in all points like as we are , yet he was without sin . |