Example sentences of "[vb infin] done [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rufus looks great , could 've done more with the aliens |
| 2 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 3 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 4 | Old Gustav may still have some old-time socialist ideals about the rights of man , but the general feeling is that Manfred would have done well on the faculty at Belsen . ’ |
| 5 | Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) . |
| 6 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 7 | No mother could ever have done more for the girl . |
| 8 | No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow . |
| 9 | No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow . |
| 10 | Even Casanova could n't have done more in the circumstances . |
| 11 | Her feet hurt a good deal , and she thought , though not wishing to be ungrateful , that she might have done better without the boots . |
| 12 | Employees ' representatives counter that many that accepted early retirement offers would never have done so without the promise that medical expenses would be covered for life . |
| 13 | Yet she could not have done so without the help of a young French countess , Sybille de la Borde . |
| 14 | She could hardly have done so without the Archdeacon 's leave . |
| 15 | Whether they would have done so without the force , is simply history . |
| 16 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 17 | Yet even as one half of her mind speculated on its significance , the other half reminded her that if she had stumbled on this odd circumstance , then the police would almost certainly have done so in the course of their routine enquiries and , since Barney was still their prime suspect , found a satisfactory explanation . |
| 18 | It is important to consider the link and the station together , and British Rail and the Government should have done so from the word go . |
| 19 | They could have done worse at the Correspondent , but they could n't get it . |