Example sentences of "[vb past] done a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I prayed as I 'd done a year before when Abed had attacked Bri . |
| 2 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 3 | I 'd done a painting . |
| 4 | He 'd done a couple of circuits before they stopped . |
| 5 | Now er when we 'd done a waggon er it was n't just er right , that 's alright , er we had a railway examiner come along and er he 'd go round it and if there was anything as he was was n't satisfied with , or any other further repairs , he he 'd stop that waggon from going out , and er of course we had to go r go back and do it . |
| 6 | From the look of things , it was odds on he 'd done a runner with either the till , a barmaid or the Christmas Club fund . |
| 7 | I thought you 'd done a runner and run away |
| 8 | He 'd done a bunk . |
| 9 | I do n't know if we 'd have worried about that if we 'd thought he 'd done a bunk . |
| 10 | But he came more than he might have and he 'd done a bit with the bells in his heyday . |
| 11 | She 'd done a bit of elementary choreography for Therese and Gesner , but he seemed to be all right , a bit standoffish and dignified perhaps , but then he was the star . |
| 12 | If you 'd done a P . |
| 13 | He 'd heard about St Manicus : they 'd done a project on him at school . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | long , very nice , very posh , erm I do n't know what me dad 's is like , er me mum was laughing er yesterday erm with er doing all this work she 'd done a load of washing and pegged it all out and when she 'd got in from work dad had ironed it all |
| 16 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 17 | I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 20 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
| 21 | Far from looking cool I must have looked like I 'd done a packet in my trousers . |
| 22 | Within her first three weeks of modelling she had done a cover of Harper 's Bazaar . ’ |
| 23 | But they sounded more hollow than they had done a year earlier , and were certainly less widespread . |
| 24 | In almost all reports in 1942 , this ‘ war weariness ’ and longing for peace , now by no means always linked to expectations of glorious victory and often highly pessimistic , dominates much more strongly than it had done a year earlier . |
| 25 | So just as Daisy had done a year or so earlier , she had made her announcement … |
| 26 | She was twenty-eight , I discovered ; her parents ( mother French , father English ) had separated some years previously when Pater had done a runner with a bimbo ; and she toiled as a handmaiden of the arts , rendering fresh the faded pigments of yesteryear . |
| 27 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 28 | Some months later I got a cheque for six hundred dollars — apparently a programme in America had done a feature on what can happen when you ask a stupid question and that was my fee for being included . |
| 29 | Er it was known by archaeologists and the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments had done a survey , but it had only done a very brief survey , and they said this is part of something left of a medieval building here . |
| 30 | She had done a total of 62 test runs , past the measured mile up and down the Baltic Sea coast near the port of Kiel , with a full load of coal ( 350 tonnes ) . |