Example sentences of "he had done the " in BNC.

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1 While acknowledging his argument for the bolt placement , I advised that he had done the route ; if others thought a bolt should be placed , let someone else go ahead and place it .
2 He had done the Royal Marines commando training , he had insisted on parachute jumping and escaping from a tank in 100 feet of water in a simulated exercise — an exercise that killed two men over the next two years .
3 When Robert McFarlane was charged with withholding information from Congress about diverting arms sale funds to the Contras , Reagan openly joked that he had done the same and withheld information from Congress .
4 After two weeks he had begun to wonder if he had done the right thing .
5 Sarah was now his wife , and he had only to look at her to know he had done the right thing .
6 She was sitting beside Ken , who looked depressingly the same as he had done the previous night .
7 There was one thing where a guy was writing The Bells Of Lal Pt 2 from the ‘ Flying ’ record and he had done the entire song an eighth note off !
8 He had done the same for old and sick people when he lived in the Borinage , so it was nothing new .
9 If he had done the shock would have been less but on the other hand , his holiday would have been spoilt .
10 Now he had managed to install the clip he was not at all sure whether he had done the job correctly .
11 While Helmholtz did not report solving problems in dreams , he did apparently rely to some extent on an autonomous process , so that once he had done the groundwork on a problem he sometimes achieved his insights apparently spontaneously , for instance when out walking .
12 Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up .
13 Curtis came in wearing a shabby , fawn mackintosh and looking exactly as he had done the night before .
14 As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " .
15 All the evidence so far pointed to the fact that he had done the killing .
16 Eating his bacon and eggs , ‘ Sunny-side up , ’ Sally-Anne had once said when she put his plate before him , drinking his coffee — he preferred it to everlasting tea , he said — he looked much better than he had done the day before ; no midnight drinking , Sally-Anne thought .
17 Dr Neil , cradling him in his arms for a moment before handing him to McAllister to care for , wondered not for the first time on such occasions whether he had done the baby a favour by enabling him to live .
18 He answered Andrus , as he had done the other Copts , with assurances and counsels of patience ; and with a touch of iron .
19 Would that he had done the same in the biological parts .
20 He probably thought I was punching it because he had done the same thing .
21 McAvennie was particularly unlucky to see his angled shot sneak inches wide of the post after he had done the hard work by walking the ball round Smelders .
22 ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray .
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