Example sentences of "done the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably . |
| 3 | Sometimes I 've done the odd job for la parallèle , ’ he said simply , as though it explained everything . |
| 4 | I 've done the second question |
| 5 | What , I 've already done the second page |
| 6 | I 've done the second lesson of it |
| 7 | That policy seems to have done the Norwegian Red , some of which are black , no harm in other respects . |
| 8 | Before stepping unrepentantly down ( in 1989 ) , he entrenched himself as commander of the army for six further years , intending thus to protect the criminals who had done the dirty work while he was president . |
| 9 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 10 | And well done the major prize-winner , Mr. S. Davies of John Broom & Co. , a keen rugby supporter who is now set to have a rather special honeymoon following his wedding next month — off with his bride to New Zealand ! |
| 11 | ‘ You 've done the easy bit , Alan , ’ he joked , sipping orange juice . |
| 12 | You can see the one that Scott done the other day . |
| 13 | Same as labour was done the other day . |
| 14 | So use the other half of the diagram , and then when you 've done the other half , the whole thing is a two-fold rotation about the centre of C. |
| 15 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 16 | Having done the honourable thing , the Emperor now felt himself free and thus it was that on 15 January 1853 he wrote formally to Eugénie 's mother , requesting the hand of her daughter in marriage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 19 | And as you ladies and gentlemen now are thinking of retiring as I have done the least thing you want to be bothered about is rules and regulations . |
| 20 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 21 | Citroen 's design director Art Blakeslee thought the company had done the right thing with Activa II . |
| 22 | Hunt thinks Mansell has done the right thing in signing with Williams . |
| 23 | The ministers concerned must have congratulated themselves that politically at least they had done the right thing by ignoring the environmental bodies and promising eight-lane motorways and an expenditure of £12.4 billion to ensure that 1992 does not leave Britain stuck in a permanent traffic jam . |
| 24 | No , she had done the right thing in ignoring the invitation to luncheon . |
| 25 | The couple thought they had done the right thing by paying £140 for a house-buyer 's survey , which had given the house a clean bill of health with only some minor exceptions . |
| 26 | We found we had done the right thing : Mr Murray was partial to a wee whiskey . |
| 27 | After two weeks he had begun to wonder if he had done the right thing . |
| 28 | Sarah was now his wife , and he had only to look at her to know he had done the right thing . |
| 29 | His very short statements , and constant insistence that they had done the right thing , made it difficult , if not impossible , to reflect the point of the view of ‘ the other side ’ — the side of the authorities , who then complained that the parents had too much publicity and had the full support of the press and media . |
| 30 | He will have done the right thing . |