Example sentences of "had do before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way home from school that afternoon she began to mull over the various possibilities , and when at last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her , she began to expand on it and lay her plans with the same kind of care the Duke of Wellington had done before the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 2 | He bared his teeth and licked his lips , as Blackberry had done before the dead hedgehog on the road . |
| 3 | She insisted on sharing it with Annunziata , who looked even more gaunt than she had done before the news of her son 's survival , and then got up . |
| 4 | When her moments of lucidity grew longer , Sycorax began to issue orders to Ariel , as she had done before the fire ; first , she felt an urgency , while her slow death continued , to pass on what she knew . |
| 5 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |