Example sentences of "[verb] done [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aside from his kicking , Ellwood , the player who has done most to transform the Irish season , has shown that he can also break . |
| 2 | It is a cruel irony that the man who has done most to reform the party and its policies , taking it to within a whisker of power , should be blamed for its failure to make the final leap to power . |
| 3 | The Labour party first committed itself to abolition of the House of Lords in 1910 , yet it has done less to diminish the power of hereditary peers than either the Liberals or Conservatives . |
| 4 | No philosopher has done more to disown the idea that his writings embody some kind of masterly or authoritative wisdom . |
| 5 | No one has done more to advance the frontiers of medicine than the Scots , yet the Opposition oppose any sort of change . |
| 6 | His parents might have done well to remember the ancient adage , ‘ Those whom the gods love die young ’ . |
| 7 | A small print shop , working on other jobs at the same time , would have done well to complete the Fairy Queen edition in under a month : and during printing , work in the theatre carried on apace . |
| 8 | This was there the captain would have done well to change the plan . |
| 9 | It is worth mentioning , however , that one of the emerging conclusions of the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry ( though it is still early days ) is that CPRW could and should have done more to alert the Welsh Office to departures from planning policy and should have created more of a public stink over such abuses . |
| 10 | The bourgeoisie remained unsuffering , and Marx might have done better to have the carbuncles professionally seen to . |
| 11 | He gave as the ground for his refusal Matadial 's acceptance that her statement to the police was incorrect , but Mr. Pantry did not oppose the application and their Lordships consider that the judge would have done better to read the statement before giving his ruling . |
| 12 | Morris claimed to have done so to demonstrate the weaknesses in the network 's security system . |
| 13 | It saw little more than arguments over who had done most to break the 1975 Final Act ; but the fact that it continued to meet held out the hope of more fruitful conversations in future . |
| 14 | Yet I do not doubt that Aristotle and St Paul have done more to frame the Prime Minister 's mind and therefore the destiny of her Government than any thinkers who have been dead for less than 1,900 years . |