Example sentences of "had done [det] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 She had done that before .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Everyone has a smile and we all wanted to tell what we had done that day or planned for the next .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 besides a great many sins that he knew he had done that he could not remember .
10 ‘ I wish to hell I had done that . ’
11 ‘ I knew if my keeper had done that he would have been off , too — it 's the law of the land these days . ’
12 Nevertheless his eyes rested on her , as they had done that first day .
13 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 .
14 She had done that !
15 If they had done that in '31 , we would not have played any cricket .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The work they had done that morning was trifling and all they had to show for it was rough shelter and little comfort .
19 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 .
20 In the circumstances the defendants had done that which was reasonably practicable and had thereby satisfied the duty of care imposed upon them .
21 If you had done that a quarter of a century ago you would still be pleased with yourself .
22 After he had done that , he would decide the date of the first reference of the case to a local review committee .
23 But it had done that before .
24 She would ask him about it if she dared , why he had done that , what it meant .
25 One time , after he had done that , I found somewhere dark , and the Bony Lady cried ; cried as she should have done years back .
26 They had done that together as children in the north of England , experimenting with different lengths of pipe .
27 Think what a different world it would be if Anthony Cheetham had done that instead of starting Century .
28 One man had done that , one man had had the power to call them all out here on to the moor , away from their homes , their jobs .
29 Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life .
30 What Adobe had done that had defeated virtually everyone else , certainly at the microcomputer level , was to build typefaces ‘ on-the-fly ’ from outlines .
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