Example sentences of "they have done [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 2 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 3 | I mean th th they 've done better than anybody than everything else , because as rates have come down , I can go back and see a client and the National Savings has fallen , and the building society 's fallen , but the , the annuity 's still plugging away . |
| 4 | you know , well they 've done brilliantly but the market we 've b between us we 've got a good for the market . |
| 5 | They 've done more than they should 've really . |
| 6 | Or is it something slightly different that , that er er the actions of the peasantry I think are la are very largely restorationist but in the process they are actually going further that , th th that they have challenged that that th th they 've done more than just want to put some of the rights wrong , that they are actually beginning to challenge the system |
| 7 | So he appeased them , placated them , told them they had done brilliantly and would all be very rich men in just a few more days . |
| 8 | Mr Blum tried his supporters saying they had done better than predicted . |
| 9 | Then she had found out about the baby and realised the truth — that they had done more than draw comfort from each other as mere friends . |
| 10 | It took nearly two hours to get the pony out on to solid ground , but when they had done so and he was examined , Farmer Yatton was able to tell the thankful Angela that her pet had come to no real harm . |
| 11 | They wished to kill and devour the father and then imagined that they had done so and felt guilty — is this what happened ? |
| 12 | The directors added that they had done so because ‘ this is the basis adopted in the accounts of the overseas subsidiaries ’ , and that the group accounts should be drawn up on the same basis in order to show a true and fair view . |
| 13 | But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society . |
| 14 | They have done so as technology has altered the source of profits in the total system of supply . |
| 15 | At night they like to ride horses , and in the morning one can see that they have done so because the horses are exhausted … |
| 16 | In many cases they have done so because their goods , produced outside the Community , have been regarded as unfair competition and have attracted anti-dumping duties designed to make them more expensive and therefore less competitive . |
| 17 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |