Example sentences of "[vb past] done a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | John had done a burglary and bought a quarter ounce and started selling it out in bags . |
| 32 | They worked occasionally and acted and wrote their plays and read Jack Kerouac like Dean had done a couple of years earlier . |
| 33 | The number of men in all four major denominations who had done a university degree more than doubled between 1870 and 1900 , from 14 to 37 per cent . |
| 34 | And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message . |
| 35 | He told me he had done a job at Ayr … he said that Ian Waddell was with him . ’ |
| 36 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 37 | The case was subsequently dismissed but a rumour arose that Andrew Mellon had done a deal with Roosevelt , offering to build a gallery and give his collection to the nation if the administration would stop hounding him . ] |
| 38 | He thought he had done a deal at £2.3 million . |
| 39 | The DTI thought it had done a deal with the lawyers and police : by the end of last September these would say whether or not there were grounds for criminal charges . |
| 40 | It 's in the process of providing one at Benson , and it only provided the Heyford site because it had done a deal with the City Council over land and that |
| 41 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 42 | He employed the Staffordshire architect John Webb , a landscape gardener at heart , who had done a lot of work locally and came highly recommended . |
| 43 | ‘ It was a conscious decision to sign to Rough Trade because they had done a lot of good work in the past and right from day one they were our friend which is the most important thing . |
| 44 | Full marks to Isobel , Hank thought grimly ; she had done a lot of homework trying to check what his rights were regarding serialization , filming and translation , and had primed him well . |
| 45 | And he had done a lot of mischief in there . |
| 46 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 47 | Somebody had done a lot of bleeding in that comer . |
| 48 | She had done a lot towards making that sale to the Americans . |
| 49 | But the breathless battering of the shower had done a lot to sluice away the weariness and discomfort of the past couple of days , and perhaps she felt bold enough to try . |
| 50 | The men who stopped her had done a lot of talking on their radio before taking her to their police station . |
| 51 | It had done a lot , that hand . |
| 52 | Some heads of department claimed that they had done a lot of thinking about policies and practices in anticipation of the appraisal . |
| 53 | ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained . |
| 54 | The new Chaplain had done a lot of good work and was given back up by the other Chaplains . |
| 55 | He was on with Mel Smith , who had done a beer commercial in which he sent up Indiana Jones — Ford 's most famous role . |
| 56 | The students I talked to here were Bryony Langworth who had designed an attractive coffee and tea service ; Christina Kirk , whose glass I admired ; Steven Keegan who had done a series of animal sculptures , one of which he sold to Dame Mary Soames ; Julie Sellars whose water sculpture for Shaftesbury Avenue 1990 looked most attractive ; Theresa Czyzewicz whose jewellery entailed the finest workmanship and was very pretty ; Clive van Heerden who was in a wheelchair near his exhibition as I arrived . |
| 57 | Meanwhile , however , another career strand had become woven in back at McKinseys where , he said , he had done a number of health service assignments with John Banham ( the future first head of the English Audit Commission before he became director of the Confederation of British Industry ) . |
| 58 | Mr Clarke said he assumed it had done a U-turn across the central reservation . |
| 59 | Erm then she put , he had done a newsletter to his friends which is beautifully done er and had sent her one and so she put it through my door so it was quite interesting . |
| 60 | They walked back towards the houses , the clownish little man and the thin child — watching him , Nick thought he looked thinner than he had done a month ago . |