Example sentences of "had done a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within her first three weeks of modelling she had done a cover of Harper 's Bazaar . ’ |
| 2 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 3 | She had done a total of 62 test runs , past the measured mile up and down the Baltic Sea coast near the port of Kiel , with a full load of coal ( 350 tonnes ) . |
| 4 | They worked occasionally and acted and wrote their plays and read Jack Kerouac like Dean had done a couple of years earlier . |
| 5 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 6 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 7 | He employed the Staffordshire architect John Webb , a landscape gardener at heart , who had done a lot of work locally and came highly recommended . |
| 8 | ‘ It was a conscious decision to sign to Rough Trade because they had done a lot of good work in the past and right from day one they were our friend which is the most important thing . |
| 9 | Full marks to Isobel , Hank thought grimly ; she had done a lot of homework trying to check what his rights were regarding serialization , filming and translation , and had primed him well . |
| 10 | And he had done a lot of mischief in there . |
| 11 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 12 | Somebody had done a lot of bleeding in that comer . |
| 13 | The men who stopped her had done a lot of talking on their radio before taking her to their police station . |
| 14 | Some heads of department claimed that they had done a lot of thinking about policies and practices in anticipation of the appraisal . |
| 15 | ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained . |
| 16 | The new Chaplain had done a lot of good work and was given back up by the other Chaplains . |
| 17 | The students I talked to here were Bryony Langworth who had designed an attractive coffee and tea service ; Christina Kirk , whose glass I admired ; Steven Keegan who had done a series of animal sculptures , one of which he sold to Dame Mary Soames ; Julie Sellars whose water sculpture for Shaftesbury Avenue 1990 looked most attractive ; Theresa Czyzewicz whose jewellery entailed the finest workmanship and was very pretty ; Clive van Heerden who was in a wheelchair near his exhibition as I arrived . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , however , another career strand had become woven in back at McKinseys where , he said , he had done a number of health service assignments with John Banham ( the future first head of the English Audit Commission before he became director of the Confederation of British Industry ) . |