Example sentences of "the [noun prp] had done [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a dynasty the Angevins had done well , but noticeably less well then either of their main rivals , the Normans ( who had conquered England ) and the Poitevins ( who had acquired Gascony ) . |
| 2 | They also indicated that they would surrender their arms to ECOMOG as soon as the NPFL had done so . |
| 3 | Giving them a taste of the Battle of Britain , hitting their churches and cathedrals , just as the Jerries had done here . |
| 4 | The USA exploded its first thermonuclear device in 1952 , and within a year the USSR had done likewise . |
| 5 | Nesta Webster , however , who was a member of the grand council for three months in 1926 and 1927 , thought that the BF had done more for British patriotism than all the other middle-class organizations put together , and soon after leaving established a Patriots Enquiry Centre , a kind of Die-hard library where the ultra-right could study the socialist menace . |