Example sentences of "had do it " in BNC.

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1 Joy that my own hands had done it .
2 He had done it with consummate aplomb .
3 He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) .
4 The cavalry had arrived , the dambusters had done it .
5 But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name .
6 She was amazed at herself , but she had done it , and now in the early hours of the morning she did not know if , even so , she would go .
7 It is all up to you — and I decided that I was never going to say anything to her because I had done it all on my own .
8 She had done it .
9 It was imperative , as he knew , not to get embroiled in politics , and he had been utterly furious when it appeared that architect Rod Hackney had done it for him .
10 They 're proud of their DIY achievements , which they often find better — and a lot more satisfying — than if a professional had done it for them .
11 But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries .
12 ‘ The rest of us had put up much the same , given that we had done it earlier , ’ he assured McLeish .
13 The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear .
14 He had appointed the Tower Commission , he said , specifically to find out whether money had been generated from the arms sales beyond the ‘ twelve million two ’ , and , if so , who had done it ; but no one had come back with an answer .
15 I heard once that you wanted to conduct Shostakovich 's Sixth Symphony but you thought Mravinsky had done it so well you would n't touch it .
16 They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor .
17 He had done it by convening his kin and friends and other nobles in his support .
18 Too many people twigged — or at least thought they did — that he had done it only to open the door of Number 10 .
19 He had done it so often , yet it got worse rather than easier : pain in the gut , sticky sourness in the back of the throat , thighs trembling with tension but the hands steady .
20 So , she had done it .
21 The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary .
22 A cashier thought she recognized him as the man who had done it .
23 And they would never , never find out that he had done it .
24 It was the way he handed the old fool the letter , Henry decided afterwards , that had done it .
25 He had done it .
26 It was thinking about that publisher that had done it .
27 Nutty had done it , for God 's sake , and she was just a fat girl ( well , not so fat any longer , but still a girl ) .
28 It was not so much the escape itself that mattered but being able to say you had done it .
29 But the French had done it .
30 Some of the Eclair exercises were faulty in the sense that the tape support was superfluous to the children who had done it already .
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