Example sentences of "had do it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |
| 2 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 3 | It was imperative , as he knew , not to get embroiled in politics , and he had been utterly furious when it appeared that architect Rod Hackney had done it for him . |
| 4 | They 're proud of their DIY achievements , which they often find better — and a lot more satisfying — than if a professional had done it for them . |
| 5 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 6 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 7 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |
| 8 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 9 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 10 | I found out later Sonia had done it for her . |
| 11 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |
| 12 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 13 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 14 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 15 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 16 | Uncle Mosse had wanted to be dead there , and since he could n't achieve it for himself , his clothes had done it for him . |
| 17 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 18 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 19 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 20 | The murderer had done it with his bare hands . |
| 21 | The priest had done it with orders for the pile of stones to be pulled down . |
| 22 | Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional . |
| 23 | He admits he might have been a little too young for the job , ‘ but after Yves had done it at Dior , everyone thought a young designer was the thing and of course there was n't that much to do , a collection of 60 or 70 dresses , twice a year . ’ |
| 24 | And he , he possibly had done it at least a half a dozen times |
| 25 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |
| 26 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 27 | The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear . |
| 28 | He had done it in the street in front of everyone . |
| 29 | And she had done it in secret . |
| 30 | It never occurred to him that the story was questionable , that Wainfleet had deliberately published something he did not totally believe and that he had done it in retaliation for being humiliated . |