Example sentences of "[pers pn] have done [art] " in BNC.

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1 Far from looking cool I must have looked like I 'd done a packet in my trousers .
2 One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’
3 Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me .
4 I prayed as I 'd done a year before when Abed had attacked Bri .
5 I 'd done a painting .
6 I 'd done a round but and really this time it 's not going away you know ?
7 I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike .
8 I 'd done a lot of training , going to the gym three times a week and now I 'm one of the top boxers for my age and weight .
9 George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different .
10 I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture .
11 ‘ Everyone who asked how I 'd done the lighting , I told them . ’
12 Those Marshalls sure sound great , ’ but although I 'd done the work on them it did n't really help me a lot .
13 But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing .
14 ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ?
15 I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’
16 Remembering the first time I 'd done the climb , back in 1964 , an echo of precise-edged delicacy tingled in my mind .
17 Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning .
18 You know , I 'd done the section manager part-time , I 've done the Saturday 's and Sunday 's , I 've done the share , the fair share of shoving the shit when I had to erm , but , I think you can get a lot of average streams , there is a lot of potential there for one to become a very valued member of staff .
19 I had done a little Cassandra Austen editing in the past , destroying a few … .
20 ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said .
21 It was a beautiful sunny morning , and at eleven o'clock , after I had done a quick surgery , we chugged quietly out of the harbour , with Lucy at the controls .
22 Pedrosa and Mota erupt into laughter as she explains : ‘ I ran in those old-fashioned , flat-soled , shoes with no spikes and I had done no training .
23 In my case it was also different , for though I had done no criminal act I had by force of circumstance set sail for Koraloona to build a new life there .
24 It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work .
25 I had done the score for Warren for Reds and I 'd never quite finished it , so I always felt I owed him one . ’
26 If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame .
27 By the time I had done the obligatory 20-minute brushwork on Vaquero , my arms ached .
28 I adored getting drunk and I adored reading in the papers what I had done the night before .
29 However , I was in no doubt that I had done the right thing by leaving him .
30 After that , I thought my support could perhaps be less , that I had done the work .
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