Example sentences of "done [prep] [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 He did n't want Gina using those arguments next time he told her how much better he could have done for himself .
2 ‘ He has done for himself now ’ I finally said as we came down through Grasmere to get some transport back to our room .
3 She prayed that Maisie could somehow see how well her boy had done for himself , and how he had come to regret the hatred that almost destroyed him .
4 yes , and look what you 've done for yourself now
5 ‘ The fact is we 've all done for ourselves and in less than thirteen years .
6 To put it crudely , the experts may ( perhaps ) have done better than the widow in Boise , Idaho , would have done for herself , but still a lot worse than using a pin .
7 If they want the free bus passes they 've got to something done about themselves and .
8 ‘ No , I saw the bruise when he came back to the shop on Tuesday evening and I asked him what he 'd done to himself .
9 What have you done to yourself ? ’
10 ‘ What the blazes have you done to yourself ? ’ he demanded .
11 Yeah look what you done to yourself .
12 What have you done to yourself that hurts ?
13 ‘ I had to play bigger points from the back of the court because I had to be more relaxed because I was worried about what I had done to myself , ’ he said .
14 You do n't think I 'd do anything to a patient I would n't have done to myself ? ’
15 Many are concerned with the Soviet Union 's place in the scheme of things ; with the poets ' sense of revulsion at what a nation could have done to itself ; with an intense probing of the values of nationhood and nationality .
16 What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads .
17 Enemas or douches done by yourself and not done before or after vaginal or anal intercourse .
18 He said : ’ That 's not fair our motivation is done by ourselves and not by the manager .
19 Indeed , does not Locke himself raise this objection when he asks why ‘ one intellectual substance may not have represented to it , as done by itself , what it never did , and was perhaps done by some other agent ’ ?
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