Example sentences of "have done [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards he asked himself whether he did all that he should have done about the miners and the working men . |
| 2 | Eve looked out of the window down the town , standing as she must often have done over the years . |
| 3 | After the door shut behind him , she sat looking at it , wondering what she would have done over the years without him . |
| 4 | Could have done without the lip I got from the scouse stallholders though ( sample : ‘ The League Title cost a fortune in them days … ’ ) . |
| 5 | And I could n't have done without the bike . |
| 6 | However , one could have done without the editors ' patriotic digs at Australian journalists who are certainly no more chauvinist than British fans with typewriters ( or indeed television cameras ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I do not want to view any of what has happened in a negative light , though it goes without saying that I could have done without the loss of our first-pick forwards for a game of this type . ’ |
| 8 | Her make-up she had purposely applied slightly more heavily than she would have done during the day , silver-grey shadow adding emphasis to her eyes , a touch of blusher for her cheeks , lipstick . |
| 9 | He took a holiday he should not have done during the Gulf War crisis when this country was facing its greatest possible crisis . |
| 10 | Silly and stupid , the sort of thing he might have done as a child , pathetic for a man of his age . |
| 11 | None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going . |
| 12 | If he had n't met you , what would he have done for the fare ? " |
| 13 | It would n't have done for the women to be met by his men . |
| 14 | There 'll be no more lolling about on the Costa del Sol in future because too much Sol will have done for the Costa . |
| 15 | She looked on it , without telling him , as a way of exercising her voice , practising her breathing as she would have done for the stage . |
| 16 | They would never have done for the vicarage windows . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose they might have done at the beginning , ’ he said , ‘ but by the time I can remember we had become part of the place really . |
| 18 | When they are grafted to a foreign site , they continue to develop as they would have done at the site of origin . |
| 19 | Her red suit was smart , but too bright a colour for her pale English pink and white skin , her brown hair could have done with a wash and her nails were ragged and bitten . |
| 20 | Ironically she rarely used much make-up herself , but right now she could have done with a cover-up stick to hide the dark shadows beneath her eyes and some blusher to conceal at least a little of her pallor . |
| 21 | My time would only be impressive if clocked by sundial but I was pleased with it , though I could have done with a couple of gym sessions to get in shape . |
| 22 | ‘ You could have done with a couple of stitches here . |
| 23 | ‘ Meeting Venus ’ looks like it could have done with a bit of old fashioned fascism itself . |
| 24 | I could have done with a bit of support from you once in a while . |
| 25 | I could have done with a bit of weeping and gnashing of the old teeth . |
| 26 | He knew he could really have done with a saw . |
| 27 | He could have done with a saw . |
| 28 | ‘ I could have done with a hand . ’ |
| 29 | It immediately grabbed my nose and twisted it round as it would have done with a fish . |
| 30 | How they could have done with a win this afternoon . |