Example sentences of "[vb past] do the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
| 2 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 3 | Bacci was n't sure if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 4 | And he 'd done the right thing in getting that wallet back to Blackbeard , because Blackbeard was horribly evil and would have come after them if Joe had n't been sensible . |
| 5 | William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 6 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 7 | Once they reached the canal bank , however , Robbie had no doubt that she 'd done the right thing . |
| 8 | Loretta put down the phone with a sense of unease , wondering if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 9 | He 'd done the right thing . |
| 10 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
| 11 | If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley . |
| 12 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 13 | You 'd done the hard part correctly , calculating what the weight would be for so many engines . |
| 14 | By the final whistle he 'd done the sensible thing and switched to Gazza . |
| 15 | So came to do the other side , went to the same routine the nipple snapped off . |
| 16 | Indeed , as Fairbairns points out , both in this article and in her novel Benefits , when a houseworker fails to carry out her domestic duties ‘ properly ’ someone else ( usually another woman ) is brought in by the state and paid to do the identical job . |
| 17 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 18 | The aim was to keep them in as long as possible , for without them the people employed to do the menial duties would have no time to relax … |
| 19 | Miss Crawford would probably stand a much better chance of becoming an actress if she stopped talking about it and started to do the necessary work to bring about her ambition . |
| 20 | We started to do the old trick of counting the time between the lightning flash and the thunderclap to discover how far away the eye of the storm was . |
| 21 | Tony with his ‘ hands on ’ approach to the practical side of moving and a view towards being economical , decided to do the whole move in house . |
| 22 | But I chose to do the instrumental album , even though it was a lot smaller scale , because I had more control . |
| 23 | I did do the right thing , did n't I ? ’ |
| 24 | It did n't er it is a difficult for me because I do n't have the figures er but er Mr er my assistant who er er did do the detailed work , er tells me that it did n't provide as much traffic relief to the A sixty one as did a western relief . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , Mama always made sure that I learned to do the practical stuff , as well as fine embroidery and canvas work , ’ Sally-Anne had said . |
| 26 | Men spoke of that as if it was a heroic thing , but it was Thorkel Fóstri , he found , who had done the actual killing , and his father would n't speak about it at all . |
| 27 | No one could believe that Everett Maltby had done the appalling things he had done . |
| 28 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 29 | Citroen 's design director Art Blakeslee thought the company had done the right thing with Activa II . |
| 30 | The ministers concerned must have congratulated themselves that politically at least they had done the right thing by ignoring the environmental bodies and promising eight-lane motorways and an expenditure of £12.4 billion to ensure that 1992 does not leave Britain stuck in a permanent traffic jam . |