Example sentences of "had [adv] done a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
| 2 | Daddy was going to rebuild it with his own hands and had already done a bit to it when I was young . |
| 3 | I had already done a couple of jumpers for a largish lady , so I embarked on the back of the third . |
| 4 | But the Government had already done a deal giving the Welsh nationalists , Plaid Cymru , a guaranteed place and were determined to keep two others reserved for the main parties , Labour and the Tories . |
| 5 | He had just done a smear test on her . |
| 6 | She had just done a course in assertiveness and when she was unkind ( which she was often ) she would say , ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry ’ , and then ‘ No , actually I 'm not sorry ! ’ |
| 7 | He handed Eleanor 's book to a moralistic old bag he had once done a writing workshop with . |
| 8 | ‘ I try to keep the grey cells working , ’ I shouted back , more to reassure him that I had n't done a runner out of the kitchen window . |
| 9 | Surely Steve had n't done a runner ? |
| 10 | That non-enrollers were more likely than migrants to say that they had n't done a course because they needed other qualifications could imply ignorance of entry requirements . |
| 11 | As far as Lorton could tell , Dougal had n't done a bunk . |
| 12 | I had n't done a thing about Archie . |
| 13 | ‘ They only discovered the grenade because she had n't done a deal properly . |
| 14 | Sean ( Hallam ) Blowers chips in : ‘ The brilliant thing about Backdraft was that no-one had actually done a film about firemen before . ’ |
| 15 | It is obvious that Smith 's assessment is coloured by his self-revealing remark that ‘ Coleman had never done a day 's soldiering in his life , and for that reason alone was incapable of leading and directing ’ . |
| 16 | I had never done a drawing solely in watercolour crayons before , and so the whole piece of work was a challenge from beginning to end to end . |