Example sentences of "have done [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What we have done over the past two years is to improve on our ability to retain the ball in contact , to drive very successfully as units ( as the All Blacks found to their cost in Lille ) and to deep those drives going . |
| 2 | We do appreciate you Steffi , for everything you have done over the years and for that special week in Brighton . |
| 3 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 4 | Erm , on entertainment , we 're spending a lot of money on organic growth and have done over the past two or three years and er , it 's very well spent but again , we 're growing our businesses , erm , er , rather than acquiring them . |
| 5 | Books on art appreciation will also concern themselves with formal questions , as they have done since the beginning of the century . |
| 6 | I feel better about it now than I have done since the accident , ’ she admitted . |
| 7 | ‘ Tomorrow we will face the Orcish scum and will triumph , as men have done since the time of Sigmar ! ’ |
| 8 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 9 | Yes , we have done since the beginning , about erm twelve/thirteen years ago . |
| 10 | The argument was over Zack 's decision to close with the negotiator called Quinn and have done with the whole thing at two million dollars ransom . |
| 11 | ‘ We ( in the USA ) could organise stockholder resolutions and protests about this as we have done with the Nestle company and others on the use of infant formula in developing nations where such distribution has a negative effect on the health of children , ’ writes Dr Chain . |
| 12 | But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC . |
| 13 | I should like to express here , as I have done outside the House , my deepest sympathy to the bereaved and to the families of those who were injured . |
| 14 | But what must the hypocritical collusion of government officials in this illegal activity have done to the way corporate officials regard laws against corporate behaviour more generally ? |
| 15 | ‘ Dreadful , ’ said Snodgrass , shuddering , but Floy said , ‘ It is only what the Gruagach have done to the Trees . ’ |
| 16 | The ‘ City of Culture ’ accolade will perhaps be an opportunity for the people of Dublin to howl in protest at what the Dublin Corporation and the Irish government have done to the city . |
| 17 | Ironically , since Hartley seems to be no great lover of what Japanese companies have done to the instrument industry , he concedes various parallels in th Peavey set-up with the oriental approach to business . |
| 18 | They provide fragments of circumstantial evidence as to what we have done to the world in the last two decades . |
| 19 | Ironically , since Hartley seems to be no great lover of what Japanese companies have done to the instrument industry , he concedes various parallels in th Peavey set-up with the oriental approach to business . |
| 20 | They 're asked to make two still images showing what the townspeople might be feeling at this moment — first , about their success in getting the railway to the town , and secondly , about what they have done to the old man , who is now homeless . |
| 21 | While purists may look on and dislike what the engineers have done to the looks of the Gooney , it looks as through this surgery may help keep the old girl flying commercially well towards the type 's centenary ! |
| 22 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 23 | But concentrating all attention on the pus cells , as researchers have done for the past 20 years , is perhaps to miss the most important elements of process . |
| 24 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 25 | They tend , as they have done for the past fifty years , to respond to the events of the day without projecting forward the effects of their policies for the necessary 18–24 months . |
| 26 | It was very well presented and that whilst Billy Connolly freely admitted he was not in fact a culture vulture , it was his enthusiasm that in a sense having his own that make the programme apparently a complete and utter joy and in a sense that 's what sponsorship should do , it should do for art , music , ballet and opera what Cousteau and Bellamy have done for the environment and Attenborough |
| 27 | I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years . |
| 28 | I want to commend you for the excellent job you have done on the Missing Girl story , from the time it broke until her body was found . |
| 29 | A separate analysis that Marie-Louise Newell and I have done on the employment histories of women born in 1946 looked for evidence of occupational downgrading associated with childbearing ( Newell and Joshi , 1986 ; Joshi and Newell , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've taught myself to speak French , German and Spanish for shows I have done on the continent . |