Example sentences of "have do the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunt thinks Mansell has done the right thing in signing with Williams . |
| 2 | If the fish is whole , and the fishmonger has done the decent thing — removed the guts and gills , which would taint it during cooking — all you need do is immerse the beast in any container large enough to hold it ( ideally a fish kettle ) , cover it with cold water and bring it gently to the boil . |
| 3 | Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably . |
| 4 | But Ken has done the hard work for us . |
| 5 | No one has done the analogous count for all groups with maternal care . |
| 6 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 7 | It was in 1988 that the college was led to believe that the three picture would fetch £15–20 million , but while the college 's financial situation has improved since then , the state of the art market has done the exact opposite . |
| 8 | Stand-up comedian MARK LAMARR has done the Christian thing and joined The Word as its new presenter . |
| 9 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point will depend on the circumstances of each case , but if the accused has done the same act on a number of occasions , if he admits he did it intentionally or if he draws attention to himself etc. then unlawful and wilful conduct may be proved . |
| 10 | All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before . |
| 11 | Owen is making the point here that the sun once woke this man up , and every morning it has done the same thing , dutifully , as it had woken the rest of the world up too . |
| 12 | But , after a management reshuffle , it has done the sensible thing and cut the dividend . |
| 13 | But I 'm not blaming the journalists , they 're under a lot of pressure ; the CBS or the BBC correspondent has to do the one report for the day . |
| 14 | who comes two years later when he has to do the same price again and it costs him money or her . |
| 15 | And should n't you , you 've done the spare kitchen scissors good ! |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 17 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 18 | Bacci was n't sure if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Once they reached the canal bank , however , Robbie had no doubt that she 'd done the right thing . |
| 23 | Loretta put down the phone with a sense of unease , wondering if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 24 | He 'd done the right thing . |
| 25 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | You 'd done the hard part correctly , calculating what the weight would be for so many engines . |
| 29 | By the final whistle he 'd done the sensible thing and switched to Gazza . |
| 30 | Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home . |