Sentence examples for been burned before from inspiring English sources

I've been burned before".

We've been burned before".

"If we are skeptical of your out-year projections," Representative John M. Spratt Jr., Democrat of South Carolina, told Mr. Bolten, "it's because we've been burned before".

The government has been burned before; last summer, it ignored warnings that IS was about to attack the Iraqi city of Mosul and failed to evacuate its consulate there.

But we have been burned before by not being prepared.

I want to be excited, but have been burned before..

We've been burnt before, so, you know… we'll believe it when we see it.

Having been burnt before, EU leaders won't collectively put their names to it unless and until it's been agreed with the EU Commission, then approved by Parliament, then on their desk.

Likewise, if you have trust issues because you've been burnt before, you might say from the get-go: "Listen, I've been deceived before.

They were burnt before, when a 2011 BAT report designed to thwart plain packaging in Australia was shown to be ruthlessly skewed and scientifically worthless.

I've been burnt before so I have an idea of how much heat I can take.