Sentence examples for a been there from inspiring English sources

Now whenever people ask me about my "career" aspirations, I tend to have a "been there, done that" sort of attitude.

Some teams have a been there, done that attitude in the first round and others take in the experience of a first-time appearance.

After the successful Moon landings in the 1970s, some began to take a "been there, done that" view of the Moon, says Jeffrey Taylor, a lunar scientist at the University of Hawai'i in Honolulu.

In an age of satellites and robotic submersibles, it's easy to assume, with a "been there done that" attitude, that we know all there is to know about Earth.

"Nobody can understand it unless you've been there," said Mr. Huneck, a burly man of part Native American ancestry whose eyes sometimes carry an unusual gleam that might be creative energy or, one can't help speculating, might be a "been there and back" glow.

That may sound like a "been there/ done that" re-do of Modernist philosophy, but Ehrenberg takes it one step further.

"A good story for the cocktail party, a been-there, done-that deal".

Encountered as words on the menu, some of his food may have a been-there, done-that feeling.

Mr. Suozzi didn't set out to be mayor, a been-there, done-that proposition for a Suozzi.

But there was a been-there, done-that quality to her victories, and they hardly generated much national excitement.

But even if you buy into Ritchie's substitution of kinetic thrills for cumulative mystery and suspense, the film has a been-there, thought-that feel to it.