Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 2 | At the Hospedaje Lisboa where Dana stayed — ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — I looked up at his window as I had so often done on those lonely days and nights he spent away from me . |
| 3 | As he had so often done during the Civil War , he sat behind the battle lines , watching through his binoculars as the two sides fought it out . |
| 4 | His response , echoing what he had so often done on the battlefield , was first to sit tight and then to try to turn an apparently negative situation to his advantage . |
| 5 | Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel . |
| 6 | You had much less to do than anything else . |
| 7 | He imagined small , cheaply staged pictures of sexual tortures involving ropes and wires — the kind of things which Boy had not yet done . |
| 8 | ‘ It was just a bit of crack , but curiously enough it gave me my first taste of playing in public , something I had not yet done back home . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Kevin Williams , the solicitor who exposed Pindown and led the campaign for a full inquiry into the regime , said yesterday the Official Solicitor had asked the children to seek legal advice about compensation if they had not already done so . |
| 10 | In 1965 Anthony Crossland , the Labour Secretary of State for Education , issued Circular 10/65 which requested those local authorities which had not already done so to submit to him their proposals for the reorganisation of their secondary schools along comprehensive lines . |
| 11 | It required those LEAs who had not already done so to submit to the Secretaries of State , by the end of the year , information about their plans for making their schools comprehensive . |
| 12 | The UN Security Council on Nov. 29 approved Resolution 678 authorizing member governments to use " all necessary means " to ensure Iraq 's complete withdrawal from Kuwait , if by a deadline of Jan. 15 , 1991 , the Iraqis had not already done so and thereby complied with the UN 's previous resolutions . |
| 13 | Like most of the pupils , Gedge had not actually done any proper work but did not see anything anomalous about such a grandiose body . |
| 14 | Previously , the 1969 and 1977 NOP surveys had broached this problem , with a question asking people whether they had considered using some form of credit but had not actually done so — and exploring their reasons . |
| 15 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 16 | As Duchess of Aquitaine she had inherited the ducal claim to Toulouse , but at Limoges Raymond had not only done homage to the Dukes of Aquitaine , he had also done homage to the Young King . |
| 17 | On their return they discovered he had not only done as instructed but painted the trees which lined the drive as well . |
| 18 | My fingers had not merely done the walking but felt as though they 'd run a marathon . |
| 19 | The whole tone of the letter appears designed to urge Cuthbert to hold a synod — as Boniface had done among the Franks — the implication being that he had not recently done so . |
| 20 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 21 | In the thickest part of the forest she felt secure , later when the sun was higher and they had eaten they would have to move on , but now while the others were sleeping she did what she had scarcely ever done before — she set herself to think . |
| 22 | Fru Møller , loyal to her country in general and her corner of it particularly , assured the newcomer that in living memory it had hardly ever done so . |
| 23 | And erm you know , I I 've had on occasion , when there have been a couple of people in our flat , we had n't either done or said anything . |
| 24 | Well I had n't even done games once so you know okay . |
| 25 | It 's it we we took about fifty or so jobs that that were over a hundred thousand pounds , and then we knocked off erm the BES jobs and and jobs which were outside party , jobs where we had n't actually done the design work . |
| 26 | He had n't actually done anything to inspire the receptionist 's obvious and instant infatuation , Shannon recalled , but then , he probably never needed to . |
| 27 | but I sat down and we had n't actually done the lecture well I could n't do this other one because I did n't understand this |
| 28 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 29 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 30 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |