Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] done a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The hon. Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) has just done a first-rate job on behalf of the Labour party . |
2 | Rob has just done a green audit for the district council . |
3 | This suggests that during a fluent phase a speaker has already done a major part of the planning before beginning to speak a clause . |
4 | He has also done a limitless edition of paper coffee cups which say , instead of the traditional ‘ I N.Y . ’ , |
5 | She has recently done a six-figure deal with Carol Smith for world volume rights in three books by ‘ bestselling novelist and TV personality ’ Denise Robertson , the first of which will be published in September 1994 . |
6 | He 'd never done a wrong thing |
7 | ‘ I 've merely done a little time-tailoring , simply removed one of the pleats or flares from the ostensibly straight leg of time . |
8 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
9 | ‘ Fighting ships that were disguised as merchant vessels were known as Q-ships and we 've just done a straight lift from there , ’ she said . |
10 | ‘ Fighting ships disguised as merchant vessels were known as Q ships and we 've just done a straight lift from there , ’ she said . |
11 | They had just done a big concert at the Albert Hall with an orchestra for an album called Snowgoose . |
12 | You 're in danger of every time you 're praising that person , they 're going to be sitting back waiting for the straight away , so you could n't , if you go up to somebody and they 've generally done a superb job and you ca n't fault him , and he knows he 's done a really good job , but he 's just sitting back waiting for you to way what , what you 've done wrong . |
13 | ‘ Why does n't her nephew send her the money for the fare ? ’ asked Mary , one of the Sprites , who had often done a good turn for Miss Miggs . |
14 | He had n't done a bad job of dictating her actions so far but that did n't mean it had to continue . |
15 | That was done because the applicants did a detailed traffic survey , albeit on a Wednesday afternoon , and the county council had n't done a detailed traffic survey , so they felt that if they went to appeal without that detailed traffic survey to back 'em up , they would have been rightly shouted that , or disputed by the applicants that had done one . |
16 | But of course , ’ his tone flayed like a whip , ‘ you 've never done a dishonest thing in your life . ’ |
17 | I wailed to Chris and Nick as a BBC producer bundled me up the stairs ‘ I 've never done a live interview before … ’ |
18 | At the Confederation of British Industry , we have already done a large amount of research into the sources of international competitiveness , and we now welcome the interest that the Government is showing in some of our conclusions . |
19 | Achnacarry and have probably done a shortened course . |
20 | It 's not that OSF technology is n't good , they argue , its simply that OSF , and its members , have n't done a good marketing job . |
21 | Mine is n't , I have n't done a front cover |
22 | I mean , I have n't done a detailed survey on anything , but I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw when I went in there , and I must say , I went there expecting it to be no more than a garden hut . |
23 | ‘ I have never done a romantic film before . |