Example sentences of "have done the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | He will have done the right thing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ But Ivy has turned out to be so good for me I must have done the right thing . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election . |
| 8 | The stories always came out well in the end , and if one of the officers was a coward or incompetent , you could be sure that by the end of the story he would have done the decent thing and charged the machine gun nest singlehanded , getting killed in the process . |
| 9 | TO SACK Norman Lamont now , eight months after he should have done the honourable thing for failing to keep sterling within Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , would smack of prime-ministerial panic and cheap populism . |
| 10 | Well I should have done the financial |
| 11 | I should have done the Financial Times . |
| 12 | However , I should have done the proper cockpit checks which I certainly did ever after . |
| 13 | I could have done that or I could have done the instrumental album . |
| 14 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 15 | I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April . |