Example sentences of "had do [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been very hot all day ; they had had exams in the morning and she had done badly because she felt so tired . |
| 2 | I was convinced I had done badly and was very depressed when during the practical exam university lecturers came around to talk to other people but not to me . |
| 3 | Something he had done rarely and with no great sense that ‘ this was it ’ . |
| 4 | For the first time in all my life I had done right because I wanted to do right . |
| 5 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 6 | Both girls had done well but Sheila had done brilliantly . |
| 7 | So I got up then and I spoke to the room you know and we were more or less helping one another out and I thought the Chairman had done well when he said erm they do n't speak er Welsh for fancy or anything they use it as every day . |
| 8 | Taureg had done well and had received her just and sincere due , but this was tot time , and on board the depot ship Omega , first things came first . |
| 9 | The number-two car with Dino Tremiti had done well and held current pole position , but even if Ace did brilliantly the Brazilian who drove for Carlisle Flint 's closest rivals was hot on his tail , and he had a reputation for being able to go just that little bit faster under the pressure of a time to beat . |
| 10 | There was a widower , two doors away , whose garden had done just that : he never touched it , and grass grew feet thick all over it , and weeds flourished , and roses climbed the hedge , unpruned , and ramped across the soil . |
| 11 | Mr Blum tried his supporters saying they had done better than predicted . |
| 12 | Mama Cass had done better than any of them with her solo career , but then tragically died so soon afterwards . |
| 13 | But other clubs facing similar conditions had done better than Leeds . |
| 14 | Davout told Thiercelin he had done better than expected , which was generous praise from him , especially as the marshal 's own enquiries had been unproductive . |
| 15 | The man who said he saw the ‘ green shoots ’ of recovery nearly two years ago claimed that under Tory rule the country had done better than many of its competitors . |
| 16 | She had done better than that and taken it to a jeweller to be plated and put into a mount so it could hang on her chain . |
| 17 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 18 | It had done better than the 5.30 Sunday Classic Serial and had proved an effective challenge to ITV 's Saturday afternoon serial , The Buccaneers . |
| 19 | Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds . |
| 20 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 21 | It was the first time as far as she could remember that any male person had done so since she left the convent school , where the visiting priest would call all the girls by their first names . |
| 22 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 23 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 24 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 25 | The directors added that they had done so because ‘ this is the basis adopted in the accounts of the overseas subsidiaries ’ , and that the group accounts should be drawn up on the same basis in order to show a true and fair view . |
| 26 | If he had done so because he genuinely believed himself to be alone and was unaware that a mounted rider was behind a clump of trees nearby , though the horse as a result took fright , he might still plead that his action was not reckless . |
| 27 | It seemed to me that the hot compresses had not only prevented the pain , but had done so because there must be living matter there which was capable of being alleviated by pain . |
| 28 | When questioned , Mason , the carpenter , agreed that it was he who had raised the flag , but said that he had done so because he had been prematurely informed of the relief of Mafeking . |
| 29 | ‘ Those who had followed Peel with open eyes ( to abolish protection and destroy his own party ) … had done so because population was growing at the rate of 300,000 per annum . |
| 30 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |