Example sentences of "done [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've done that on trains , I 've done that on a tour bus quite recently , and of course the response you get can be very , very aggressive and that 's sometimes quite hard to handle but I take the precaution of always checking before I go somewhere that I 'm going to , I 'm going to be backed up , for example , erm before I go I purchase my holiday , I actually checked with the tour company that they did n't allow smoking on the buses |
2 | I just want to tell you , time I done that done that on a number of spreadsheets compared with the same label on one , on one |
3 | Yeah got that done that with a bit of |
4 | And of course it th it 's more often done that with the kettle of course , so that it 's it by the time you get to the end of the job you do n't want a cup of tea anyway . |
5 | See well , you could er I still went with the horse and cart down there on a Saturday , take the meat , still the same I done that for a year or two . |
6 | ‘ I just show the prisoners a picture of an aborted baby and I say to them if I had done that to a baby I deserve to be here , but what I am trying to do is prevent it happening . ’ |
7 | Unfortunately I lost me job then on the face , having done that to the butty , I did n't get back four yards , or whatever it was . |
8 | The hon. Gentleman was critical of the way they had done that as a result of the orders while the review was under way . |
9 | All he 's worried about is getting wickets , and he 's , as I think I said yesterday he starts to feel a bit frustrated with his lax control , the ball flows all over the place and then somehow or other he 's got at the , the real quality batsmen in the opposition side , he 's got DaSilva out , might have been a slightly lucky dismissal caught down the leg side and he 's got him out and he 's done that in every match he 's played , he 's given away runs pretty rapidly , but he keeps getting vital wickets as well . |
10 | No Chancellor of any party has ever done that in the past and no Chancellor is ever likely to do so in the future . |
11 | ( I have done that in the past . ) |
12 | His flashy marketing campaigns have done little for the success of Midland 's new products . |
13 | Until recently he believed that ‘ the magnificent State of Britain' had done little for the Science upon which her wealth , power and very existence depended ; except to provide security and freedom in a country its citizens could be proud of , and this had indeed been enough . |
14 | Putting up posters and shouting slogans about democracy had done little in the past to achieve the students ' goal but in 1980 , some believed that substantial change could be achieved if the limited opportunities presented by the Gengshen reforms were seized . |
15 | ‘ Constance has done this on the rebound , ’ Nora continued . |
16 | We could have done this without the Support Force but it would have taken longer to do . ’ |
17 | Would they have done this in the knowledge that they were guilty ? |
18 | There was an implication that certain auditors ( no names mentioned ) had not done this in the past . |
19 | Now I 've actually done this in the past . |
20 | It has been trialled with encouraging results : in an informal trial ending in the summer of 1984 the mixed ability class which had done some of the course came out ahead of parallel classes in all subjects . |
21 | We have already done some of the groundwork for the new tax . |
22 | But hell , why was she taking all the blame and why was she letting him punish her when he could easily have done some of the running himself ? |
23 | ‘ I had a call from 20th Century Fox — I 'd done Sleeping With The Enemy for them — and arranged to meet the director in Atlanta . |
24 | This was written so quickly that several errors occurred , one being the omission of the name of the person who had done much of the work since September : Marvin Hawkins , the graduate student . |
25 | We had arranged with the agents that if we were interested we would stay the night in a local hotel and the next day meet the builder who had done much of the reconstruction of the place . |
26 | They had met originally when Verrall was writing a biography of Cromwell for which William had done much of the research . |
27 | However , we had not caught a double , so unbeknown to Rick I wound in my right hand rod which had not done much on the meat and switched over to a boilie . |
28 | While Colonel Sanders 's fried poultry has n't done much for the state 's image and few of us get to attend the Kentucky Derby , America 's leading spirit is becoming increasingly fashionable in Britain . |
29 | The UOC found that " it is patent that some feeling exists among the Unionist Press that , while in the past they have done much for the Party , the Party has not assisted in their work . |
30 | He justified the appeal by claiming that the smugglers had done much for the town 's " smugglers cove " image and that the town would benefit from the resultant increase in tourist trade . |