Example sentences of "they [vb past] done [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
| 2 | He 'd heard about St Manicus : they 'd done a project on him at school . |
| 3 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 4 | I did n't think too much about this at the time , although I knew they usually only had money for their ‘ little pleasures ’ after they 'd done the washing and pawned it . |
| 5 | Yeah they 'd done the buffet and it was all it was in blue red blue and white . |
| 6 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 7 | But they sounded more hollow than they had done a year earlier , and were certainly less widespread . |
| 8 | ‘ It was a conscious decision to sign to Rough Trade because they had done a lot of good work in the past and right from day one they were our friend which is the most important thing . |
| 9 | They had done a good job at that garage . |
| 10 | Some heads of department claimed that they had done a lot of thinking about policies and practices in anticipation of the appraisal . |
| 11 | Then they had done a short walk along the Lagan , the mood teetering precariously between rapprochement and a set-to . |
| 12 | The others returned to the city , falling back in brave order till they were out of reach of the enemy : and they had done no little in that exploit , for they slew above two hundred and fifty Moors . |
| 13 | But they had done no harm to Timothy Gedge , and if they seemed ridiculous they could n't really help it . |
| 14 | The ministers concerned must have congratulated themselves that politically at least they had done the right thing by ignoring the environmental bodies and promising eight-lane motorways and an expenditure of £12.4 billion to ensure that 1992 does not leave Britain stuck in a permanent traffic jam . |
| 15 | The couple thought they had done the right thing by paying £140 for a house-buyer 's survey , which had given the house a clean bill of health with only some minor exceptions . |
| 16 | Anyway when they had done the rounds of your local relatives they contacted your father . |
| 17 | To this day Girls who worked in the 1920s would not consider others to be proper Tillers unless they had done the inevitable Paris stint . |
| 18 | His very short statements , and constant insistence that they had done the right thing , made it difficult , if not impossible , to reflect the point of the view of ‘ the other side ’ — the side of the authorities , who then complained that the parents had too much publicity and had the full support of the press and media . |
| 19 | ‘ The reaction from my clients and business contacts was tremendous — perhaps some of them wish they had done the same — and one senior partner from the Big Six wrote and told me that his mother had been a great friend of Lady Reading , the WRVS 's founder , and that until he was 15 he thought all women dressed in green ! ’ |
| 20 | A total of 40.7% of respondents chose their last holiday on the basis that they had done the same before and enjoyed it ; 19.7% went somewhere where they had always wanted to go ; and 17.9% went on a word-of-mouth recommendation . |
| 21 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |
| 22 | By the time they had done the shopping and got back and Tessa had cooked the lunch ( as she insisted on doing in her eagerness to keep house for him ) it would almost certainly be something like three o'clock . |
| 23 | The fields became parched and brown and the cattle required additional concentrate feed much as they had done the previous year . |
| 24 | If they had done the bank would have written back and said mind your own business . |
| 25 | Mr Simon and Mr Brown marvelled that they had done the run without a single hitch remarkable considering that in the two weeks before , every major thing that could have gone wrong had done so . |
| 26 | According to our companions , the workmen who made the tombs were killed after they had done the job , so that no one could find out exactly where the tomb was . |