Example sentences of "have done [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill .
2 A party seeking to recover his property , which may be held , for example , by someone who has done work on it , will have first to issue proceedings , and if it appears that a lien arises , the court may order that the party seeking to recover may pay into court , to abide the event , the amount in respect of which the security is claimed together with such further sum by way of interest and costs as the court directs , and upon such payment , the property be given up .
3 Judge Bryan Prior has done society a favour not just by locking Michael Watson away , but by giving a warning to every mugger .
4 It is n't necessary to tell you that the West Riding owes its position in the vanguard of educational thinking and practice to a few people , of whom Basil was one of the most distinguished , and the work he has done will still go on .
5 Besides Snoopy , Praxis has done MS-DOS emulation work for Sparc cloners Mars , Tatung and Hyundai .
6 Dun says it has done $5m of business on SmartStream since launch last summer , has some 30 customers , with five orders over $300,000 : the software is aimed at organisations doing $150m a year and up .
7 D&B says it has done $5m of business on SmartStream since its debut last summer , has some 30 customers , with five orders worth over $300,000 : the software is aimed at organisations with revenues in excess of $150m .
8 In her last term she won the Miss Clark Lawrence Award for service to the school : a special award , not necessarily given , ‘ for anyone who has done things that otherwise might have gone unsung ’ .
9 Secondly , erm think of the world of ‘ Yes , Minister ’ , it must be so , or even more so in France perhaps , erm there 's this huge French administration which has done things in much the same way through the decades and I suppose wo n't easily be changed from doing them .
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11 Usually the weathering has done part of the job , but thereafter a combination of small chisels and stout needles ( to prise away individual grains ) is needed .
12 She addressed a group of clergy from the Diocese , sharing with them her experiences of bereavement as a religious , a hospital chaplain , a nurse , and also someone who has done research into the needs of the bereaved .
13 Although nobody has done research upon the development of brain connections in the beaver , they have done this kind of research on other animals , like worms .
14 Dr Peter Fleming , who has done research in Bristol , said overheating due to environmental temperature , over-insulation or both contributed to cot death .
15 From a hot-head who has done time for killing a man , he develops into a union organiser who discovers the eloquence his new role demands .
16 He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment , and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre .
17 ‘ I mean he has done time .
18 Police were let into the flat by 35-year-old Stephen Knox , who said : ‘ Simon has done funeral work for our company .
19 Andy Horne of Barclays Bank said : ‘ This slating has done sterling no good at all .
20 With his Gere-good looks ( the 27-year-old has done model assignments for Bruce Weber and Calvin Klein and commercials for Miller beer and Coke ) Parrish was deemed perfect despite having no movie background whatsoever .
21 DRA itself has done installers for the Transputer , 386/486 , MIPS , 68K , VAX and is looking at HP 's PA-RISC .
22 So far three critics have attempted this comparison ( with varying statistics ) , but none of them has done justice to the intensity and range of Shakespeare 's pronouns .
23 There are numerous examples of the manner in which distorted religious teaching has done harm .
24 Naturally , he would say , he had disappeared from the chateau ; he was scared they 'd pin the crime on him because he 'd done stir — time .
25 And they used to work through whatever you 'd done , whether you 'd done word processing that sort of thing .
26 I tell you what Kevin if you 'd done Europe I think you 'd of had , we 'd of had just as much trouble .
27 Stuart Balmforth , with whom I 'd done part of my National Service in the Canal Zone , was now the co-owner and a director of British Midland .
28 He said he 'd done things like that before .
29 Something of a scholar , and Leistritz said he 'd done farm work before .
30 But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting .
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