Example sentences of "have done such " in BNC.

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1 Often the individual has done such a good job of ‘ forgetting ’ that this recall can only be achieved by means of regression .
2 Lady Goulding , who has done such incredible work for the needy in Dublin , and is a Founder Member of the Central Remedial Clinic which specialises in helping children with cerebral palsy .
3 ‘ Who could 've done such a terrible thing ? ’
4 Some find her inconsistencies maddening , failing to understand how a right-on feminist could have done such a thing as using Mandy Smith in her show at the very height of the tabloid fuss over Smith 's under-age relationship with Bill Wyman .
5 Could you have done such a thing , Mom ?
6 Nobody believed Philip could have done such a thing as marry one of the Ryan girls for love .
7 She could have done such things .
8 A staff with a heavy rounded handle might have done such damage , but the crater it had made was large indeed , and jagged , not regular .
9 ‘ Yes , the Gruagach would never have done such a thing if it had n't been suggested to them , ’ put in Feradach .
10 How could he believe that she would have done such a thing ?
11 I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis .
12 How could she have done such a thing ?
13 He will have done such an act if he does something which substantially impedes his ability to return the goods by the end of the period ( whether that be a stipulated period or a reasonable length of time ) .
14 ( 5 ) , on the other hand , seems to call into question the existence of any conditions which could have led to someone leaving Pa unattended : the speaker can not understand how anyone could have done such a thing .
15 We ask of each person whether he did anything he should not have done such that he should be blamed for the deaths that followed , or whether he contributed to the accidents in such a way that , blameworthy or not , he should bear some portion of the damage or loss .
16 She drove fearlessly up a narrow dirt-track road that wound steeply between scented pine trees because she was still mad that Fernando could have done such a thing .
17 Women should never have done such heavy work .
18 How could I have done such a thing ?
19 How could I have done such a thing ?
20 Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate .
21 ‘ When the time comes it 'll need to be decorated and furnished to show prospective buyers , and as you 've done such a great job on your own place I thought you might be interested , ’ Vitor explained .
22 Now they 've done such a good round we 're a bit nervous , but I think we 'll be OK provided the winds stay the same
23 When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before .
24 She could n't understand why we had done such a thing .
25 Arguing once more from the personal to the universal , he concluded that those who had done such a thing to him were the enemies of all civilised society .
26 She had set her mind to it , and it would certainly be accomplished ; but in that winter dusk , as the rain fretted at her window , as she recalled the innocence of the child who had once sung alone in the house where her grandfather had done such wrong , Louisa Anne Agnew , already twenty-seven years old , wondered whether her life had yet properly begun at all .
27 In the past few years they have done such a great job in establishing a platform to build on . ’
28 He would never himself have done such a thing to a brother king trouble .
29 I have done such scenes many times .
30 Er those known to so many of us who gave their lives here from this base and finally er in honour of those who have done such a tremendous and magnificent job in the restoration of this nerve centre of , of the Hundredth Group and , and as we dedicate this plaque and this building today , we remember , before God and before one another , all of these people who have had a part in what we do here today .
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