Example sentences of "done [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As often as not , He has done nothing of the kind . |
| 2 | It was a disgraceful act which I do not condone , but I am almost certain my son had done nothing of the kind before . |
| 3 | You say you have bestowed your gift of the secret of life on mankind , but in fact you have done nothing of the sort . |
| 4 | In 1974 military engineers stood by to operate power stations in Northern Ireland during the protest strike by the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council , though they could have done nothing without the help of at least the power station managers . |
| 5 | It 's done nothing for the box . |
| 6 | Well November , I meant the fourth of November it seems to be for ever anyway I spoke to the Head of the Department when they came back and he said I must admit we 've done nothing from the point of view of putting things on paper but a lot of thinking has gone into it I must really sit down now and commit things to paper . |
| 7 | You know it 's in in the form that we 've done them in the past . |
| 8 | Fraser 's had two thousand pounds in cash and been allowed lots of time by the airforce , and the army gave him a radio used in the Falklands — the rest he 's done himself with a mortgage |
| 9 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 10 | Yeah cooked , we done everything on the fire |
| 11 | For the past 25 years leading businesses have done everything by the book . |
| 12 | You have done everything by the book and your water is spot on , but green water is truly a natural part of maturation and nothing to worry about in itself . |
| 13 | There are three separate exercises , done one after the other . |
| 14 | But he 'd sat there listening , with that sneering smile of his , drinking Ban 's claret as if he was doing the Braithwaites a great favour , while Ben , who 'd had his share of claret too , lamented the fall of the Whig government , which might have done something for the manufacturing classes , and the election of the land-owning Tories , that bunch of country squires like the Larks , who would not . |
| 15 | Gregory of Tours and Bede both knew that the conversion of their peoples to Christianity had done something to the religion to which they were converted . |
| 16 | Have you done something on every page ? |
| 17 | Done something as an animal does : just finds it 's gone ahead and done it . |
| 18 | It is now common knowledge that there were consultants — were , because the Government have done something about the problem — who simply said , ’ I am a very important man . |
| 19 | If one suppresses the name , one does not suppress the rest of what is reported , so it is reported that someone , or perhaps more than one person who has been defamed , has done something in the course of the case and it may be that he or she is not known to the public and is of no interest to the public . |
| 20 | So , if you have done something in the past which you now regret and would do differently were the situation to repeat itself , you should be pleased that you have learned something vital and that your spirit , having dealt with that negative aspect , will not have to encounter it again . |
| 21 | And so I have done something from a plane . |
| 22 | We should have done something like the RAND health insurance experiment . |
| 23 | suddenly it all ended when a SAC , who was n't even a suspect , admitted that he 'd done it during a fit of depression ; with a pair of pliers , not a knife ! |
| 24 | If an employee has produced a computer program outside the normal course of his duties , but has used his employer 's equipment or done it during the hours of his employment , the ownership of copyright is more difficult to predict , although it is more likely that the employer will be treated as owner . |
| 25 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 26 | But I 'd never done it to a policeman before . |
| 27 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |
| 28 | You would n't ha you would n't have done it to a dog though . |
| 29 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 30 | The first time he 'd done it with a boy , he 'd been ashamed . |