Example sentences of "have do [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a time when Charles was coasting at school and if I had been working , I would have told him to buckle down — which would have done no good at all . |
| 2 | The summary of the Webbs ' view is that , by contrast with their model of Socialism , Owen 's scheme — if it could have been carried out — would have done no more than redistribute the capital of the country without altering or superseding the capitalist system in the least . |
| 3 | ‘ I would have done a great deal more , Hilary , ’ he told her seriously . |
| 4 | Hatton could have done a nice little distracting job there . |
| 5 | he might have done a roast dinner and that they |
| 6 | Practising freekicks , with no ball , on no pretext other than looking as if you 'd have done a marvellous job if there had been a ball . |
| 7 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 8 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 9 | She always said she could have done a better job running the place than the Director or his boss , Controller Establishment Research and Nuclear . |
| 10 | I was n't very happy with my legal representation ; in fact , I think I could have done a better job myself . |
| 11 | Yep The Don was crap — I could have done a better job . |
| 12 | No-one can argue against or overstate what Sgt Wilko has done in this area , that 's why I believe no-one around could have done a better job , and why he is the best man for the future too . |
| 13 | They must have done a good job and not over ‘ humanised ’ her because her introduction to the chimp group was problem-free . |
| 14 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 15 | Yet , the people , who might assert this , will not have done a careful costing of royal finances . |
| 16 | ‘ Jamie would never have done a silly thing like climbing up the archway . ’ |
| 17 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 18 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 19 | I 'd have done I 'd have done a quick , a little man carrying a bag with dollars |
| 20 | Although there was never a great deal of action , at one time the firm must have done a fair trade as old Mr. Talbot was reputed to be a very wealthy man . |
| 21 | It must have done an awful lot of damage everywhere else too . |
| 22 | It can not have done the YF-23 any good that it was unable to kick the AMRAAMs out of its weapons bay on demand . |
| 23 | Erm so federalism is a fairly important principle in American government and that principle , essentially , is , and most of you I hope will have done the first year course politics and policy making where I talked about federalism in general terms that federalism is based upon the notions that in the same territory you can have more than one government and that those governments er are of equal status . |
| 24 | And in settling what these questions shall be , statesmen have now especially a great responsibility if they raise questions which will excite the lower orders of mankind ; if they raise questions on which the interest of those orders is not identical with , or is antagonistic to , the whole interest of the State , they will have done the greatest harm they can do . |
| 25 | In both cases , the thing had seemed a sheer impossibility ; he had not thought but known that , being what he was , he was psychologically incapable of doing it ; and then , without any apparent movement of the will , as objective and unemotional as the reading on a dial , there had arisen before him , with perfect certitude , the knowledge ‘ about this time tomorrow , you will have done the impossible ’ . |
| 26 | He will have done the right thing . |
| 27 | Whether he would have done the right thing by her — as they said in those days — is fruitless speculation : he was never told of the need . |
| 28 | ‘ But Ivy has turned out to be so good for me I must have done the right thing . |
| 29 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 30 | But he controlled himself — there was a force of mandroids that would have done the controlling , otherwise — and merely snarled a reply that left the old pirate fuming . |