Example sentences of "he [verb] done be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main thing he got done was to defeat the General Strike . |
| 2 | All he has done is to show , in a crude way , that , in order to increase the market value of the firm , one needs to identify opportunities where actual returns exceed those required for the risk involved ! |
| 3 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 4 | What he has done is to supply himself with a ridiculous experience by the telling of which he could entertain several hundred people , without having to undergo the dispiriting strain of suffering it first . |
| 5 | So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration |
| 6 | And he drew it out actually , remember he 's only six , seven years old and what he 'd done was to put this spring loaded hanger into the back of the tube and he 'd made a kind of trigger with a little , little plastic peg , and he said here 's your gun ! |
| 7 | All he 'd done was to make a picture of someone in his head and worm his way inside it . |
| 8 | Barker was a natural showman , promoting Henry VIII with the declaration that he would burn all the prints of the film within six weeks , and his own sense of the significance of what he had done is echoed in Rachael Low 's description of this as ‘ the first really important feature film . ’ |
| 9 | All he had done was follow instructions . |
| 10 | All he thought he had done was to assemble a collection of his favourite songs . |
| 11 | He said that all he had done was run how he knew best and that he had kept totally relaxed by not bothering about anybody else . |
| 12 | McKeever was cleared of the assault charge after he said Mr McNally had approached his table in an aggressive way with his fists up and all he had done was push him away . |
| 13 | Okay all he 's done is given tacit consent , he owns property in England , fine , but that still counts only as tacit consent . |
| 14 | What he 's done is stuffed an order through for a six three O eight . |