Soldiers had been there before her and there was none on the trees.

在这以前已有士兵到过那里，树上什么也没有了；她在地上捡到的那些也大半是烂了的。

Some boys had been there before dinner, and all the ripe berries were picked.

有些男孩子午饭前就已经在那里了，所有成熟了的黑莓都被摘走了。

And so we felt we had been there before, that we had seen it before.

所以我们会觉得曾经去过美国，曾经见过美国。

He had been there before and one of the fishermen was looking after the skiff for him.

他刚才去过了，其中有个渔夫正在替他看管这条小船。

But goats had been there before and the space they cleared helped prevent the building from going up in flames.

但山羊以前来过这里，它们清理出的空间有助于防止建筑着火。

" They had been there before." So we're using the past perfect tense, here.

“他们以前来过。”所以我们在这里使用过去完成时。

I don't know if you guys have been there before.

我不知道你们以前有没有去过那里。

A lot of these plants, I think, might have been there before we came along.

我想，很多这样的植物可能在我们出现之前就已经存在了。

Even if it is air, it could have been there before the obstruction.

就算那是空气, 也有可能在肠道阻塞前就在那儿呀。

The person behind the desk was not the same as the one who had been there before.

桌子后面的人和之前来过的那个人不一样。

They were never quite the same ones in physical person but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been there before.

她们每次人都不同，可是全长得一模一样，因此看上去都好像是以前来过的。

Yes, it's still in Canada, and yes, Melissa and I have been there before, but it is so unmemorable that it isn't the problem.

是的，它仍然在加拿大， 是的，梅丽莎和我以前去过那里，但它是如此令人难忘， 这不是问题。

I had been there before but it was only now, sober and unhurried, that I was able to take in my surroundings and the scale of his achievements.

我以前去过那里， 但直到现在， 清醒而从容，我才能够了解周围的环境和他取得的成就。

And besides, we liked to jump from the roof of one car to another and pretend they were giant mushrooms. Somebody started the lie that the monkey garden had been there before anything.

还有，我们喜欢从一辆车顶跳到另一辆车顶，假装它们是巨大的蘑菇。渐渐起来一种传言，说别的事物都还没出现之前，这里便有了猴子花园。

I was really, really lucky I was at a brilliant state primary school and also my brother had been there before and he'd been diagnosed with dyslexia so they'd already dealt with him.

我很庆幸，自己就读了一所非常了不起的公立小学，我的哥哥也曾在那里读书，而他也患有阅读障碍症，所以，学校里的老师其实已经有过辅导他的经验。