Example sentences of "have done [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would you have done about Kirsty then ? ’ |
| 2 | She wondered what she would have done without Sadie 's friendship . |
| 3 | A widely accepted understanding of power is that it is the ability of A to cause B to behave in a manner intended by A that B would not have done without A 's intervention . |
| 4 | That is to say , they were more formal , more polite , and rather more distant than usual , asking permission to do things that usually they would have done without question . |
| 5 | They could have done without De Gaulle 's sentiment . |
| 6 | The legendary wealth of the Incas sounded almost as unlikely , as marvellous to me as it must have done to Pizarro and his cohorts , many of whom were peasants drawn from an arid future in Estremadura . |
| 7 | Using a democratic structure of rotating the roles of therapist and patient , it encourages people to express previous hurts in ways they might have done as children if that had been allowed . |
| 8 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 9 | ‘ And what would you have done for money ? |
| 10 | The fee was n't much , but Harford wanted a club in the south and that was it — not much consolation for Kendall , who knows he might well have done for Everton what he 's doing for Chelsea , helping to turn them into a real Premier League force . |
| 11 | It would n't have done for Laura to have suspected it , but I was pretty worried about her . |
| 12 | What more , for example , could Mr Marshall have done for Helmut ? |
| 13 | Instead , it perhaps sees its bulging coffers as sufficient reason to risk the wrath of the law , as it must have done at Fangdale Beck . |
| 14 | I do n't know , I always said I 'd never took the piss out of these children , but I 'm sure I must have done at school , but I must admit I was embarrassed . |
| 15 | They too tend to work very hard , harder than they would have done at school , and get good results . |
| 16 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 17 | Under the umbrella of a degree course in English Literature , Robyn read Freud and Marx , Kafka and Kierkegaard , which she certainly could n't have done at Oxbridge . |
| 18 | These are eminently sensible things , which Reagan would not have done at gunpoint , and much the same themes run through the more contentious measures . |
| 19 | And there 's nothing you could have done at Chevisham . " |
| 20 | She felt some obligation to keep the conversation going ; it was impossible to walk round in silence the way she could have done with Hugh . |
| 21 | Er we could have done with cars , he says , what are they bringing out this silly thing when we could have done with more cars you know . |
| 22 | He would have done with kings and dynasties . |
| 23 | I thought you were supposed to be finding out what he was working on , not going on about what he might or might not have done with Suzanne Regan . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ As Beatrix should have done with Tristram 's letters from Spain . ’ |
| 25 | Yep , there 's been a lot of occasions in the last two to three months when I could really have done with access to a computer . |
| 26 | Right , and we 've got part of this linked in with the stuff you might have done on Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis in the sense that er people talk about different things because they might be relevant to their actual lives . |
| 27 | ‘ Which she may have done on purpose . ’ |
| 28 | We have wept more over our sodden copy of The Way We Were than Streisand must have done on Robert Redford 's last day of filming . |
| 29 | He would fit more naturally into an old silent movie than he would have done on Tiswas . |
| 30 | She said nothing she should not have done under interrogation . |