Example sentences of "have [adv] do [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applying Morris one has not because one has not done an unauthorised act . |
| 2 | The abolition of those taxes has not done the average family any good , has it , or those at Lloyd 's ? |
| 3 | It would take a musical analysis to find out whether the offerings to which these two extremes respond are really worlds apart ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 13 ) , we know that the question implied in the final sentence has already been answered in his own mind , just as surely as we know that he has not done the musical analysis but simply conflated Elvis and … whom ? |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) has just done a first-rate job on behalf of the Labour party . |
| 5 | Rob has just done a green audit for the district council . |
| 6 | This suggests that during a fluent phase a speaker has already done a major part of the planning before beginning to speak a clause . |
| 7 | Britain 's membership of it has already done the untold harm to the British economy that I described in Chapter 5 ; the quicker the Government decides to abandon the objective of re-entering the ERM and to take back permanent control of the economy the better . |
| 8 | He has also done a limitless edition of paper coffee cups which say , instead of the traditional ‘ I N.Y . ’ , |
| 9 | Anyway , etlprky the mole has now done the decent thing and walked before being given out , so hopefully that 's the end of the matter . |
| 10 | He has n't asked me yet , not formally , he has n't done the man-to-man bit with my father , I 'm just expecting it to happen one day , maybe . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well they 'd better do a wee test then . |
| 13 | It was the first time we 'd ever done an overland journey . |
| 14 | He 'd never done a wrong thing |
| 15 | I 've only done the patterned bit . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've merely done a little time-tailoring , simply removed one of the pleats or flares from the ostensibly straight leg of time . |
| 17 | I mean , I 've always felt that I had better do a helluva lot of acting . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although nobody outside the club gave us a prayer of winning , the lads had already done the difficult part of the job by turning the tide at Anfield . |
| 20 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Fighting ships disguised as merchant vessels were known as Q ships and we 've just done a straight lift from there , ’ she said . |
| 23 | They had just done a big concert at the Albert Hall with an orchestra for an album called Snowgoose . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | He had n't done a bad job of dictating her actions so far but that did n't mean it had to continue . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And then slowly he smiled , and the smile lit the dark blue eyes and transformed the face , and she knew it was all right ; she had n't done the wrong thing after all . |
| 29 | Nice rotted muck is alright , not too bad , but erm of course we had n't done the main thing had we , thrashing ! |
| 30 | But of course , ’ his tone flayed like a whip , ‘ you 've never done a dishonest thing in your life . ’ |