Example sentences of "have done [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Could have done without the lip I got from the scouse stallholders though ( sample : ‘ The League Title cost a fortune in them days … ’ ) .
2 And I could n't have done without the bike .
3 ‘ 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 . ’
4 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 .
5 Silly and stupid , the sort of thing he might have done as a child , pathetic for a man of his age .
6 None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going .
7 If he had n't met you , what would he have done for the fare ? "
8 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 .
9 They would never have done for the vicarage windows . ’
10 ‘ 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 .
11 When they are grafted to a foreign site , they continue to develop as they would have done at the site of origin .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ You could have done with a couple of stitches here .
16 ‘ Meeting Venus ’ looks like it could have done with a bit of old fashioned fascism itself .
17 I could have done with a bit of support from you once in a while .
18 I could have done with a bit of weeping and gnashing of the old teeth .
19 He knew he could really have done with a saw .
20 He could have done with a saw .
21 ‘ I could have done with a hand . ’
22 How they could have done with a win this afternoon .
23 What would I have done with a mother who smothered me in love ? ’
24 If they had , what would they have done with the bird 's skull ?
25 He had half-expected Caterina to fail to turn up , and he was n't sure what he would have done with the girl if she had come .
26 And what 's more , how Leeds could have done with the Frenchman as they crashed to their fourth defeat in five games .
27 What Leapor would have done with the money can be surmised .
28 He refrained from ringing Fred up and stored Daisy 's dividend cheques in a drawer without cashing them , although he could have done with the money .
29 So that 's what you would have done with the corn The hay was the hay the stalk ?
30 The bay to his left was labelled ‘ Fiction A-H ’ , and to his right was the cash desk looking much the same as it must have done on the day the shop was first opened .
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