Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] done a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Citroen has done a lot of work in this area , starting back with the BX and this is now paying off with insurance quotes across the model range . ’ |
| 2 | Erm if the car has done a lot of mileage , will you get a lot of money for it or will you get less money ? |
| 3 | Nynex Corp 's New York Telephone has done a deal with Newbridge Networks Inc for equipment to enable it to offer Nynex Enterprise Services , which provides business customers with private line services whereby with a single telephone call , they can reroute transmissions , add new circuits and raise available bandwidth to set up videoconferences : Newbridge is supplying its 4602 MainStreet Intelligent NetworkStation , 3645 MainStreet High Capacity Bandwidth Manager , and 3624 MainStreet Intelligent Channel Bank . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Attlee and Mountbatten have done a service to all mankind by showing what statesmen can do not with force and money but with lucidity , resolution and sincerity . |
| 7 | Bob McMillan , managing director of Honda Racing , said : ‘ Joey has done a lot for us over the years and he thoroughly deserves this gesture . |
| 8 | The lads arrive at the local nick to find their Houdini pa has done a bunk and they wander about the country trying to locate him , pitching up in a one horse Long Island seaside town . |
| 9 | HUSSEY has done a lot of good at the BBC , making it more accountable . |
| 10 | The lad has done a lot for the club out in the middle and in the dressing room , but has n't answered our prime need — someone to knock over the opposition . |
| 11 | 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 . ] |
| 12 | ‘ Your Negotiator has done a bunk , ’ he said flatly . |
| 13 | So just as Daisy had done a year or so earlier , she had made her announcement … |
| 14 | But I 've been up there cos Bev 's done a couple from |
| 15 | Aussie RL chiefs have done a U-turn after originally backing a plan for the Brisbane Broncos to take on John Monie 's Wigan for the World Club crown at Central Park on October 31 , a week after the World Cup final . |
| 16 | Luis Vargas , an Archuar Indian , said that Indians no longer wanted British Gas on their land and were no longer prepared to negotiate with the company , " British Gas has done a lot of damage in our forest " he said . |
| 17 | But IBM France , Spain and Italy have done a lot of work on the technology . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But in the past 10 years physiological and pharmacological laboratories around the world have done a lot of research on acupuncture . |
| 20 | They worked occasionally and acted and wrote their plays and read Jack Kerouac like Dean had done a couple of years earlier . |
| 21 | I think you know , Lincolnshire has done a dam good job for the people in Lincolnshire whether it in roads , whether it be old peoples homes , or whether it be in schools , whether it be in fire stations , police stations , I admit to where one could say across the board , they could compare , that they could compare , they might compare they might live in one area and work in another . |
| 22 | What has been achieved by 3i over the years is a very clear demonstration that the banking system has done a lot to help the growth of small and medium-sized businesses . |
| 23 | Now the Arabs have moved in , because you-know-who in Rome has done a deal for oil rights , including a fat kickback for you-know-who , naturally . |
| 24 | The new Chaplain had done a lot of good work and was given back up by the other Chaplains . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He is an excellent carpenter and the couple have done a lot of DIY throughout their home . |
| 28 | I 'll talk to you about one of his experiments to give you a sort of flavour of it , although other people and himself and others have done a lot of interesting work that 's similar . |
| 29 | Perhaps those hon. Members who have raised points of order have done a service to the hon. Members who wish to take part in the ballot . |
| 30 | Yes , middle class women have done a lot for the ‘ Women 's Movement ’ but does she really think that us working class women have been sitting on our arses doing nothing all this time . |