Example sentences of "had done [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She had done him a beautiful hand-painted one the year before with ‘ Lots of love ’ on it . |
2 | It did n't take much to get him back into proper work ; the pleasant surprise was that the three weeks holiday had done him a lot of good . |
3 | People had done him no harm , the Dasses , the Abigails . |
4 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
5 | Time to fast from it That session with She-She had done me no good at all . |
6 | In a way , without knowing it of course , the Old Man had done me a favour . |
7 | In a way , I was thinking , Gharr had done me a favour . |
8 | They thought it was best to know what you were up against , but Preston was n't sure it had done them a lot of good in the long run . |
9 | FOOTBALL fans thought Lord Justice Taylor had done them a big favour when his report into the Hillsborough tragedy condemned the ill-thought ID card scheme to the dustbin of history . |
10 | But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony . |
11 | I never thought I 'd say that a sneak thief had done us a favour . |
12 | We had seen a lot of people cry in our time , but this was the first time that Quigley had done us the honour . |
13 | But that was your real nature , and it told me that nothing would make you kill an innocent man , a complete stranger , who had done you no harm . |