Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] done the " in BNC.

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1 She just waited until the storm was over , when she pulled a clean handkerchief from her sleeve and handed it to Annunziata , remembering with a tiny moment of irrepressible pleasure the time when David had done the same for her .
2 The first day Benguiat accused him — Parkinson printed up this sheet as a handout with which the finished examples had the logos that he was exploring in the lectures and one of them was the New York Times magazine , and of course Benguiat had done the original job for the New York Times and the magazine , the other magazine , so he thought that what Parkinson was showing was an example of a redesign , relettering of an existing logo , and perhaps he should n't of said that , you know .
3 Madra helped Ratagan with the fire , and when Riven had done the best he could with his ripped clothing he wandered about the campsite looking for firewood .
4 He , then the most powerful and feared man in western Europe , was being pressured by someone who was the less-than-firmly-established leader of one of the poorest , weakest states in Europe ; who considered Nationalist Spain had done the Axis a great favour in beating communism in the Civil War ; who appeared to have forgotten the extent of German aid in achieving that victory ; who offered to contribute next to nothing to the German war effort ; and who , to crown everything , expected to receive military supplies and territory in return , at best , for vague promises .
5 Robert had done the decent thing and given Anwar alpha double plus for an essay entitled ‘ My Cat ’ .
6 She was suddenly glad that Inspector Blakelock had done the documentation on the clunch pit murder .
7 Eleven minutes later Ger Burns levelled the scores with a short corner conversion and Clarke put Ireland 2–1 up with a fierce shot which went in off the crossbar after Jimmy Kirkwood had done the initial damage on the stroke of half-time .
8 Downstairs in the kitchen he found that Celia had done the washing up and left a fresh pint of milk and the morning 's mail on the table .
9 Before twelfth-century English bishops helped to propagate a canon law based on papal direction by appealing constantly to Rome for guidance , Boniface had done the same in the eighth century .
10 A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home .
11 When Laura complained at breaktime that Peter had done the same again , pushing her towards the broken tiles which had recently been blown off the junior hall roof , Janice felt that Peter needed to be shown that what he had done was dangerous and unacceptable .
12 An announcement timed to be released simultaneously in Britain and America confirmed my world exclusive in Mirror Sport yesterday that Mansell had done the deal .
13 To Libby it seemed as though he was marking out boundaries the way she and George had done the winter it snowed ; making footsteps in the dense white stuff , indicating territories .
14 Dee and Kelley had done the now legendary vanishing act and they 'd taken Barry along with them .
15 Ven had done the same thing yesterday .
16 I mean , Alan Arkin had done The Russians Are Coming but that was n't the romantic lead .
17 Gomez had done the tying .
18 No one could believe that Everett Maltby had done the appalling things he had done .
19 Hatton had done the journey in the shortest possible time , leaving no possible spare moment for undercover activities .
20 The last time Ben had taken her there — on the quiet ; it was to be a secret Annie had done the clog dance to Ben 's playing his tin whistle .
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