Example sentences of "done an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Jackson , always called ‘ Father ’ , A-pay-gee ( big father ) in Burmese , had done an amazing job in giving confidence to his blind pupils , reducing Burmese to Braille , planning weaving , making baskets and mats of all descriptions . |
| 2 | He has done an immoral thing because he felt guilty about not taking the children to Disneyland all those years ago . |
| 3 | Being one of the most experienced pilots in Bomber Command and having done an instructional tour , meant nothing . |
| 4 | Sir Edward Heath has done an admirable job , do you think that the die was cast anyway ? |
| 5 | Or did you feel , well , he 's done an admirable job . |
| 6 | One of the most remarkable contributions opens the book : Monte San , born in the 1880s , in an age where the then sovereign , Queen Victoria , refused to believe lesbians existed anywhere , let alone in the British Empire 's colonies ) Bradstock and Wakeling have done an admirable job in putting together a collection of personal essays that explore the inner and outer ramifications of being a lesbian , in the last hundred years of the myth-shrouded place that is Australia . |
| 7 | Peter Wright has done an admirable job and not just in the set scrum . |
| 8 | Have you done an internal examination ? ’ |
| 9 | Applying Morris one has not because one has not done an unauthorised act . |
| 10 | In Tamil Nadu , the ruling party has done an audacious deal with a faction of the former regional force . |
| 11 | You 've done an accurate copy have n't except for this . |
| 12 | ‘ Jimmy Nicholl has done an unbelievable job with them , ’ observed the former Celtic man . |
| 13 | Scottish Television 's Managing Director Gus Macdonald said Mr Scott had done an outstanding job in strengthening the news and current affairs programming . |
| 14 | It must have done an awful lot of damage everywhere else too . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've done an awful lot of work , ’ admitted Faldo at the course where Jack Nicklaus won in 1967 and ‘ 80 . |
| 16 | Still , Hollywood had done an irreparable harm to the Indian , perpetuating the lies of the Manifest Destiny , the Savage Redskin and the Noble Bluecoats . |
| 17 | Let's start by saying that David Jones has done an excellent job here . |
| 18 | If Moxon , still young in captaincy terms , were to be given the job there would be a strong argument in favour of a team manager and as Illingworth , perhaps wisely , has rejected one offer to return ( from Leicestershire ) Yorkshire might look at another native son who has , from all accounts , done an excellent job in his first year of managment at Somerset , Jack Birkenshaw . |
| 19 | ‘ He has done an excellent job , ’ Wanless says . |
| 20 | On the surface , nobody could quarrel with its conclusions ; Cadbury has done an excellent job in producing a basically sensible code of good practice . |
| 21 | ‘ Gerry Francis has done an excellent job , and they could be the surprise package , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Well nobody 's mentioned the Queen and I think the Queen 's done an excellent job ! |
| 23 | She concludes that , on balance , the RMCs have done an excellent job and that the most successful ones have been based on colleges or groups of colleges which already had pockets of energy and entrepreneurial spirit and like the South West RMC were closely linked with the communities they served . |
| 24 | You have certainly done an excellent job and I hope that at our next meeting on 11 August 1993 at 10.00 a.m . |
| 25 | He stood at the doorway regarding the room with approval before he said , ‘ Thank you , girls — you 've done an excellent job . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The MMB has done an excellent job for milk producers in the past , providing a sure market and a guaranteed payment for their milk . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ All BNFL people and contractor companies involved have done an excellent job and I would like to express the company 's thanks . |
| 28 | Quite a phenomenal achievement for the party to pool that number of quite diverse opinions together , professional , Country Landowners Association , all the District Councils , have done an excellent job of unity and cooperation , and I think that 's very , very welcome indeed . |
| 29 | It 's a shame for shopkeepers … we 've been here for three years and have always done an excellent job for them . |
| 30 | Little has done an excellent job at Filbert Street since he left Darlington last summer . |