Example sentences of "have done [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What we have done over the past two years is to improve on our ability to retain the ball in contact , to drive very successfully as units ( as the All Blacks found to their cost in Lille ) and to deep those drives going . |
| 2 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 3 | Erm , on entertainment , we 're spending a lot of money on organic growth and have done over the past two or three years and er , it 's very well spent but again , we 're growing our businesses , erm , er , rather than acquiring them . |
| 4 | The argument was over Zack 's decision to close with the negotiator called Quinn and have done with the whole thing at two million dollars ransom . |
| 5 | But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC . |
| 6 | I am proud of what I have done as a practising solicitor and I expect all other solicitors feel the same . |
| 7 | They 're asked to make two still images showing what the townspeople might be feeling at this moment — first , about their success in getting the railway to the town , and secondly , about what they have done to the old man , who is now homeless . |
| 8 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 9 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 10 | But concentrating all attention on the pus cells , as researchers have done for the past 20 years , is perhaps to miss the most important elements of process . |
| 11 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 12 | They tend , as they have done for the past fifty years , to respond to the events of the day without projecting forward the effects of their policies for the necessary 18–24 months . |
| 13 | I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years . |
| 14 | I want to commend you for the excellent job you have done on the Missing Girl story , from the time it broke until her body was found . |
| 15 | But just as they have done throughout the past three years , we find the Opposition spokesmen contradicting each other . |
| 16 | WHAT Manchester United have done in the close season has convinced me Alex Ferguson has probably blown it . |
| 17 | It would be better in the ordinary case , where the justices think there should be no contact , to say there is no order for contact , which , in fact , is what the family proceedings court have done in the present case . |
| 18 | We intend to reinforce the courts , as we have done in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , by sustaining their powers to sentence convicted sex offenders to life imprisonment . |
| 19 | Mike can probably come in teen care , but essentially what we have done in the current year , is sell places on teen care where we have needed the income in order to balance our books , . |
| 20 | I am very proud , very proud indeed , of what BBC journalists have done in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 21 | I remind him that there are examples of states coming together — as they have done in the Common Market — but then having to co-exist so closely that they can not stand the sight of one another and begin to fall apart . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher , who returned from the United States last night , said : ‘ Everything we have done in the last 13 years will be conserved and built on into the future . |
| 23 | ‘ But we are proud of what we have done in the last year and a half . ’ |
| 24 | People can see what I have done in the past 16 months and can form their own opinions about whether I have made the right judgments for the future of this country . ’ |
| 25 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the measures introduced yesterday by our right hon. Friend the Chancellor , the harmonious industrial relations restored by the Government and the substantial investment from home and overseas mean that manufacturing in the heart of England is deeply grateful for all that the Government have done in the past 13 years ? |
| 26 | I wonder how many of them will fill their pages tomorrow or the day after in the way they have done in the past few weeks . |
| 27 | While we have had our differences with the Government about the interim advisory committee and the way in which it has worked , it might be worthwhile at this stage , in what might be our final debate on the work of the interim advisory committee , to thank its members for the work that they have done in the past few years . |