Sentence examples for has got there before from inspiring English sources
FOR once the United Nations has got there before the television cameras.
"But we were shocked to find that our rubbish has got there before us".
In contrast, Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, made clear the legacy he inherited from writers when he humbly conceded that "Everywhere I go I find a poet has got there before me".
Mr Brown, cannily but a little opportunistically, has got there before you, proposing a double referendum on a change to the "alternative vote" system for electing the House of Commons, and a House of Lords elected by "an open-list proportional representation electoral system".
It's hard to go anywhere in the world these days and not find that Top Gear has got there before you.
"Most of the deep sea remains unexplored by humans and these are our first visits to many of these sites, but we were shocked to find that our rubbish has got there before us".
"I kind of expected to be [world] No 1 at my age, maybe even to have got there before because I never really broke through as early as I expected," he says.
But probably someone richer and stronger has gotten there before you".
Pollock will almost certainly claim the landmark - only 18 others have got there before him - in England's first innings.
There's an unwritten rule in Brazil: however remote your destination or deserted your beach, however difficult the journey, someone flogging cold drinks and snacks out of a big polystyrene box will have got there before you.
