Example sentences of "have done [prep] the [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 | None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going . |
| 11 | If he had n't met you , what would he have done for the fare ? " |
| 12 | It would n't have done for the women to be met by his men . |
| 13 | There 'll be no more lolling about on the Costa del Sol in future because too much Sol will have done for the Costa . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They would never have done for the vicarage windows . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | When they are grafted to a foreign site , they continue to develop as they would have done at the site of origin . |
| 18 | If they had , what would they have done with the bird 's skull ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And what 's more , how Leeds could have done with the Frenchman as they crashed to their fourth defeat in five games . |
| 21 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
| 22 | We could have done with the masks upstairs at the ‘ Music Journalism ’ gathering , where a group of rock writers were taking themselves — and their , ahem , Art — extremely seriously . |
| 23 | What Leapor would have done with the money can be surmised . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So that 's what you would have done with the corn The hay was the hay the stalk ? |
| 26 | It is worth posing additional questions to promote discussion some that have been found to be useful are : If there had been no problem with the purchase of the bacon-curing business what would you have done with the £500 paid to the accountant ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She watched the keys fall , noting that they fell more slowly than they would have done on the Earth . |
| 29 | Second , Y never gave possession of the car to his customer ( M ) as he should have done after the finance company ( Z ) had accepted the hire purchase proposal . |
| 30 | Again there 's a lot of other evidence that Freud does n't mention and he could have done like the Ark . |