Example sentences of "had done in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groundcrew were emotional and applied themselves with vigour to their checks , to keep their minds off the subject in hand — just as the aircrew had done in the cockpit on the flight from Cranfield to Waddington . |
| 2 | The two and a half second ticking sequence sounded exactly as it had done in the sonar room . |
| 3 | Women burdened with loads attracted him , as they had done in the Borinage , pushing wheelbarrows , sweeping , and fetching coal . |
| 4 | The commons played a more substantial and a more independent part in this political crisis than they had done in the conflicts of Edward I 's last years and Edward II 's reign , and they showed some awareness of their power to demand concessions in return for agreeing to the king 's financial demands . |
| 5 | any way she said its nothing like the tiles she had done in the kitchen |
| 6 | She did n't look as bad as she had done in the dressing room but she was obviously not young , not slender , not a girl . |
| 7 | The next time they returned to the windward mark , Paul Cayard tried to shoot the mark as Dennis Conner had done in the defenders ' trials on Tuesday . |
| 8 | In ecumenical circles of late we have been reminded that ‘ remembering ’ in the biblical context was far more than simply recalling to mind what God had done in the past . |
| 9 | The Education Department did n't like the situation ; they did not co-operate with advice or materials as they had done in the past , and in fact the island 's Director of Education accused Mrs M of ‘ acting illegally ’ . |
| 10 | The message was clear : Beijing University had a special character and wanted to go its own way , as it had done in the past , and lead other universities in the process . |
| 11 | At the moment there is n't even a charging regulations came in the schools immediately cut back because it was a very definite barrier that was put up to prevent schools that prevented schools from from taking up that sort of er offer that they had done in the past and it 's a major problem . |
| 12 | I sought a subject , as I had done in the past , by looking at my TV screen to see what was going on the world . |
| 13 | But American imperialism was on the alert to intervene as it had done in the past ’ ( Roy : 1964 , p. 346 ) . |
| 14 | She heard words like ‘ impulsive ’ , ‘ trusting ’ , ‘ hot-tempered ’ being mentioned , and she slotted the adjectives into her own life , thinking back to all the things she had done in the past which conformed with the personality being dissected by the astrologer . |
| 15 | NATO and Warsaw Pact negotiators in Vienna were indeed moving towards broad agreement on ( i ) the exchange of military data ( which began to flow far more freely than it had done in the past ) ; ( ii ) intrusive verification regimes ; and ( iii ) " asymmetric " force reductions owing to Warsaw Pact superiority . |
| 16 | That was precisely what women had done in the past — sit back and wait for men to make the running . |
| 17 | Her plans to move away from London meant that she was no longer able to continue as director of the Display Team and she was warmly thanked for everything she had done in the past . |
| 18 | She frowned ; she might be prepared to forget the past to help the work situation , but she had no intention of letting this man think she had forgiven what he had done in the past . |
| 19 | The conflict with the second director derived from his wanting Dustin to play the role of Valentine Brose just as David Warner had done in the London production . |
| 20 | Her expression was one of utter distaste , as though she were looking at something a dog had done in the middle of the floor . |
| 21 | The company discussed the situation with PW which , while stressing it could not give an audit report , was prepared to say what it had done in the form of a review to GRE 's directors . |
| 22 | Our panel gave more weight to unemployment throughout the final campaign than they had done in the Pre-Campaign wave . |
| 23 | In attempting to deflect opinion from the disappointments of the previous winter and the lack of prospect of an early end of the war and to revamp morale through blaming others for Germany 's misfortunes — much as he had done in the years before 1933 — Hitler had lifted a corner of the veil of the ‘ Führer myth ’ and revealed a glimpse of the arbitrary , dictatorial , and irrational way he responded to the first reverses he and the nation had had to suffer . |
| 24 | The room turned , as it had done in the parties of her youth . |
| 25 | The undergraduates of Magdalene used to say about their Master that he spent the morning doing nothing and spent the afternoon writing about what he had done in the morning . |
| 26 | Mary showed him the work she had done in the garden , and they talked as they cut and cleared . |
| 27 | The British still believed themselves to retain ‘ shared values ’ which the debate over a national educational curriculum in the 1980s helped stimulate anew , as it had done in the French Third Republic after 1875 . |
| 28 | The Feldwebel bounced up and down on his seat with laughter as he had done in the car at Amsterdam . |
| 29 | Once again she wondered what it was that he had done in the war to make Anthony so angry . |