Example sentences of "had do [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harriet would make excuses for this , rather as she had done over her late husband 's peccadilloes . |
| 2 | It did n't matter how old she was , or what her personal wishes were , when her father saw what she had done to her hair he would undoubtedly try to murder her . |
| 3 | Meanwhile in Egypt Isis had heard what Seth had done to her husband and in great distress she set out to find him . |
| 4 | As she had done to her teacher yesterday . |
| 5 | Suzannah 's mother Cassie said she wanted to shoot Downey for what he had done to her eldest daughter . |
| 6 | Matters then came to a head and after dropping her baby the mother was distraught about what she had done to her child . |
| 7 | If a wife reported the matter to the police , her children ‘ might resent what she had done to their father ’ . |
| 8 | And for all he knew , pro-Syrian elements , the Lebanese Forces and other narco-terrorist groups were also still looking to revenge themselves for the damage that he and the Asmar cell had done to their drugs , arms and hostage-taking operations in Beirut . |
| 9 | In the spring of 1648 , when the Second Civil War broke out in accordance with this plan , many of the principal officers of the Parliamentary Army , furious at the King 's conduct in deceiving them and plunging the nation into an unnecessary war , solemnly undertook ‘ to call Charles Stuart , that man of blood , to an account for that blood he had shed , and mischief he had done to his utmost , against the Lord 's cause and people in these poor nations ’ . |
| 10 | The people in his past had been real once but , although that was a very long time ago , he had never been able to forget them or what they had done to his life . |
| 11 | She did n't want to see what she had done to his craggy yet handsome face , so she made him go away . |
| 12 | That was the first time I killed , because of what my cousin Blyth Cauldhame had done to our rabbits , Eric 's and mine . |
| 13 | Everything became one long dreary goodbye as parents came to thank Cassie for all she had done for their children , and the children themselves became sad and fretful at the thought that soon Cassie would no longer be their teacher . |
| 14 | Along the way Aileen told people all about the charity and the work they do for children with terminal or life threatening illnesses , she also explained just what the charity had done for her family when they were faced with such a situation . |
| 15 | Four years later Agate was surprised that the film version of J. M. Barrie 's A kiss for Cinderella was so good and in particular that the acting of the American star Betty Bronson had equalled the stage performance of Miss Hilda Trevelyan for what the latter had done with her voice ‘ this little screen actress does with her eyes , which are the windows of as lovable a soul as was ever born into the world of make-believe . |
| 16 | But Pam had done with her radical phase . |
| 17 | Shinwell had been heard to declare that " he held the seamen of the Clyde in the hollow of his hand " and that English ports were also dissatisfied with Wilson 's autocratic methods and ready to break away if he did not tell them what he had done with their money . |
| 18 | She got a glimpse of a different life , a different marriage between two good , kind , ordinary people — perhaps not so ordinary when one thought what they had done with their farm . |
| 19 | Proceeding much as he had done with his houses , Edouard first refurbished them . |
| 20 | He could n't remember what he had done with his bike when he got to the Fletchers ' , left it there and collected it next day perhaps , but he could remember most of the rest of it . |
| 21 | He let his head roll against the window and she could have believed he was doing something with his eyes to the countryside , the way he had done with his eyebrows to the men . |
| 22 | He continued to practise photography as a hobby until 1887 , taking an ‘ unalloyed enjoyment of the art ’ , much as he had done with his drawing and engraving . |
| 23 | Boulton did not refuse outright but managed to get some mine owners to donate 10 guineas ( £10.50 ) to Murdock for the good work he had done on their engines . |
| 24 | She wanted to throw them wide and let in as much air as possible , as Cobalt had done on her earlier visit . |
| 25 | If the CBSO strings failed to assert themselves strongly enough in the overall balance at certain crucial points in the first movement , they certainly approached the textural problems of the adagio with great sensitivity and , when it came to them , phrased the main theme as eloquently as the clarinet had done on its first appearance . |
| 26 | All the drawings Cizek liked were amongst those I had done on my own and not under supervision ; which I was glad of . |
| 27 | There was a bit less hair on his scalp but he looked as fit as he had done at their previous brief meetings . |
| 28 | He worked almost unbelievably long hours and subsisted on occasional cups of tea ( rather as Krishna Menon had done during his long , lonely London years ) . |
| 29 | The church actually lost yet more ground under Edward II than it had done under his father . |
| 30 | Held 2–8 March , the fair enjoyed twice as much space in its new premises , the Grand Palais , as it had done in its former venue , the basement of the Hotel George V. Still an all-French affair despite the eagerness of foreign galleries to get in , this year 's Salon was the first to include nine contemporary dealers , including Gerald Piltzer who made a last minute decision to join in . |