Sentence examples for had been done before from inspiring English sources

It had been done before, under Metaxas".

"Nothing of the kind had been done before".

"It had been done before, many times, but not on Long Island," he said.

"We tried to do it better than it had been done before".

1991: Sainsbury's Recipe advertising had been done before, but never so appealingly.

It had been done before, successfully, he said, citing a campaign against shark fin soup.

He did not, he said, want "to repeat what had been done before".

Although this had been done before, the new element of the hack was that it no longer required physical access to the car.

Ministers said this had been done before and counted as overseas development assistance, the OECD's measure of aid spending.

Narrative videos had been done before, but never with such a perfect marriage of song and visuals.

But the rubber-bracelet gimmick had been done before, too — and that was before recent events made the bracelets (perhaps) permanently passé.