Example sentences of "[verb] done the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predictably , the styling rework has done the look of the 911 no favours : rehashing a beautiful original rarely does . |
| 2 | Hunt thinks Mansell has done the right thing in signing with Williams . |
| 3 | If the fish is whole , and the fishmonger has done the decent thing — removed the guts and gills , which would taint it during cooking — all you need do is immerse the beast in any container large enough to hold it ( ideally a fish kettle ) , cover it with cold water and bring it gently to the boil . |
| 4 | But , after a management reshuffle , it has done the sensible thing and cut the dividend . |
| 5 | Not every reader will understand the significance of ‘ a ( London ) taxi driver who has done the knowledge … ’ but peptide chemistry comes through clearly . |
| 6 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 7 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 8 | In Germany , Peter Malinski has done the same , except that , whereas the Italian kites fly in the vertical plane , Peter 's are very wide span horizontal designs . |
| 9 | The 13-goal marksman 's chances of being fit have improved since he started the treatment and his manager Ron Atkinson said : ‘ If he does make it and this machine has done the trick I 'll gladly pay out Pounds 25,000 myself to buy one . ’ |
| 10 | At least if no-one has done the job before , anything you do will be an improvement ! ’ |
| 11 | Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration . |
| 12 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point will depend on the circumstances of each case , but if the accused has done the same act on a number of occasions , if he admits he did it intentionally or if he draws attention to himself etc. then unlawful and wilful conduct may be proved . |
| 13 | For the last 18 years this wonderful lady has done the housework , the washing and the gardening for the old people living in our village . |
| 14 | An informed insider told me last night : ‘ It is absolutely certain that Nigel has done the deal . |
| 15 | Humans must diagnose who has done the deed and try to rectify it . |
| 16 | This was an ambition of mine too but a busy working life restricted my activities , and since retirement Anno Domini has done the same , my total bag being no more than a meagre twenty . |
| 17 | Stand-up comedian MARK LAMARR has done the Christian thing and joined The Word as its new presenter . |
| 18 | ‘ Very well attended , as an opening occasion should be , but I think half of these people have come to stare at Emily Grenfell who has done the unthinkable and gone into trade . ’ |
| 19 | It was in 1988 that the college was led to believe that the three picture would fetch £15–20 million , but while the college 's financial situation has improved since then , the state of the art market has done the exact opposite . |
| 20 | Amdahl Corp 's first quarter loss warning has done the Sunnyvale IBMulator no good at all with Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which cut the company 's short-term debt to Prime-3 from Prime-2 in expectation of weak earnings and and reduced cash flow at the company . |
| 21 | Since 1979 it has done the first ( seek efficiency ) and the second ( pare everything ) but never the third ( redefine the welfare state ) . |
| 22 | HP figures it has done the same against Sun Microsystems Inc at the low end , claiming Sun 's attempt to break into the commercial market is based only on price . |
| 23 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 24 | It should be said straight away that he has done the job thoroughly . |
| 25 | The 1930s showed how individual towns ( such as Jarrow ) could lose the bulk of their economic livelihood , and ‘ de-industrialization ’ of the 1980s has done the same . |
| 26 | And we shall get a clearer idea of the time of death when Dr. Blain-Thomson has done the P.M. But judging from the state of rigor , Dr. Kerrison was n't far out . |
| 27 | No one has done the analogous count for all groups with maternal care . |
| 28 | All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before . |
| 29 | Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably . |
| 30 | It is absolutely clear that my hon. Friend the Member for Leicestershire , North-West ( Mr. Ashby ) has done the House a service by raising this matter . |