Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] done [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Each day , when Tod and I are done with the Gazette , we take it back to the store .
2 The master is liable for wrongful acts and defaults of his servant — though they may be unauthorized or even forbidden by him — so long as they are done within the scope of the employment .
3 Is it being done for the management , who have to justify it in terms of the policyholder ?
4 ‘ I think the sheer professionalism of the job as it 's done at the moment is hard to beat .
5 Anything that is done for shock value has no future because it 's done for the moment .
6 It 's done on the barrel , ’ said the chairman who much more happily confided that at 59 of course he will be batting and bowling again this summer , ‘ and that 's what it worked out a pint .
7 The Amateur Athletic Association have clung to their name despite condoning the principle that athletes be paid — often very large sums — provided it is done through the setting up of ‘ trust funds ’ .
8 ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’
9 Indeed , Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 is a clear decision to the contrary since it laid down unequivocally that an act may be an appropriation notwithstanding that it is done with the consent of the owner .
10 The omission of these words from the definition of theft lends some support to the argument that an act may amount to an appropriation although it is done with the consent of the owner .
11 Usually it is done during the summer , certainly for my better clothes .
12 There is always a reason for each batch of redundancies — it is done in the name of greater efficiency or due to changing economic conditions or is blamed on world recession .
13 The study found that the impact of conversion on local employment is minimal , particularly if it is done by the farmer 's family rather than a local company .
14 Even the control of birth has played a part in it , although we are not very much in favour of how it is done by the system .
15 He is done with the face way too soon .
16 And if anyone deserves a full house that night it should be as a tribute to all he 's done for the club .
17 I think Wilko is the best we could have possibly gotten in a manager and people ( including me unto recently when I was put right ) are ready to forget what he 's done for the club .
18 I then take it on myself to swill off the blades and rollers so they wo n't put Pa off finishing the grass when he 's done with the Virgin in there .
19 ‘ Ask him what he 's done with the money !
20 " And the work he 's done on the clunch pit case — how long would that have taken ? "
21 ‘ Show him you 're really interested in what he 's done in the past and what he 's planning to do in the future . ’
22 ‘ How did Lord Wittisham happen to have atropine with him , if it was done on the spur of the moment ? ’
23 Much of this engineering work was wasted at the time , for it was done on the eve of the railway age and never put to good use — not until the twentieth century .
24 It was done with the co-operation and permission of the Nature Conservancy Council so as to avoid ecological damage , and I would like to point out politely that it is a private road .
25 But in October 1341 , relieved of financial pressure by the desertion of some allies and by the bankruptcy of his Italian bankers , Edward repealed the offending statutes , though it is significant that it was done with the advice and assent of the earls , barons and other wise men .
26 When it was done before in the republic , you wan na quote history , you wan na quote it accurately , it was done with the agreement of a sovereign people .
27 And it was done at the convent hospital , where the anaesthetist there , not only gave this gentlemen a general anaesthetic but also a spinal anaesthetic as well .
28 Albeit I think it was done for the parish council so .
29 It was done by the Play Bus man , that 's what you 're thinking
30 I think it was done by the head or somebody else .
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