Example sentences of "had do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Qaddafi had done good things : they had schools , hospitals , policemen who behaved themselves . |
| 2 | They had done 343 kilometres . |
| 3 | The bringing together of school-leavers and vacancies began with the adolescent being interviewed at school , after which a form was completed by the headteacher and a member of the SCC , just as the ‘ Friendly Visitors ’ had done prior to 1910 . |
| 4 | By then , he says , ‘ we had done 1.5 years of study and we were saying , what the hell are we going to do with this ? |
| 5 | Her logical mind accepted this possibility , as it had done countless times before , but she did n't think her brother would ever have considered suicide . |
| 6 | Directly he had done praying he looked up , and there was the sun-god standing beside him . |
| 7 | The flat was indeed in some disarray : immaculately clean , evidently she had done that first , but with most of its furnishings disposed in boxes on the floor . |
| 8 | She had done that before . |
| 9 | As he was getting into the train , Jordi smiled and shrugged as he had done that night in Valladolid when the secret police had led him away . |
| 10 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 11 | Everyone has a smile and we all wanted to tell what we had done that day or planned for the next . |
| 12 | All I had to think about for 5 months had been which was the best brand of nappies or how many poos Danielle had done that day . |
| 13 | There was the slimy membrane and some messy stuff that Nails cleared away diligently and threw outside ; he got some fresh straw and by the time he had done that the foal was trying to stand up , with great difficulty . |
| 14 | If it was , that meant there were livestock in the room and the landlady had done that to stop these things falling from the wall onto the blankets . |
| 15 | besides a great many sins that he knew he had done that he could not remember . |
| 16 | ‘ I wish to hell I had done that . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I knew if my keeper had done that he would have been off , too — it 's the law of the land these days . ’ |
| 18 | Nevertheless his eyes rested on her , as they had done that first day . |
| 19 | He itched to do the latter , but common sense prevailed ; he had seen how uncomfortable were the lives of other guys who had done that , either to marry too young or go it alone . |
| 20 | She had done that ! |
| 21 | If they had done that in '31 , we would not have played any cricket . |
| 22 | We had erm no we we actually had done that we have given questionnaires out as programmes we actually asked people to I mean it 'll be interest to see how many people fill it in this evening but there is a built in resistance by some people to actually fill in any sort of questionnaire er and in the past when we 've actually done that I think the response 's has n't been that that brilliant . |
| 23 | When I had done that , I touched over the same areas again to strengthen a colour or restate an edge or detail as I felt necessary . |
| 24 | The work they had done that morning was trifling and all they had to show for it was rough shelter and little comfort . |
| 25 | The only activity Gerald had forbidden her was the embroidery of tapestry , which he had declared too menial an occupation for a young lady of her intelligence , preferring her to accompany him on his visits to neighbouring landlords as she had done that day . |
| 26 | In the circumstances the defendants had done that which was reasonably practicable and had thereby satisfied the duty of care imposed upon them . |
| 27 | If you had done that a quarter of a century ago you would still be pleased with yourself . |
| 28 | After he had done that , he would decide the date of the first reference of the case to a local review committee . |
| 29 | But it had done that before . |
| 30 | She would ask him about it if she dared , why he had done that , what it meant . |