Example sentences of "have do [adj] [art] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some find her inconsistencies maddening , failing to understand how a right-on feminist could have done such a thing as using Mandy Smith in her show at the very height of the tabloid fuss over Smith 's under-age relationship with Bill Wyman . |
| 2 | Could you have done such a thing , Mom ? |
| 3 | Nobody believed Philip could have done such a thing as marry one of the Ryan girls for love . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , the Gruagach would never have done such a thing if it had n't been suggested to them , ’ put in Feradach . |
| 5 | How could he believe that she would have done such a thing ? |
| 6 | How could she have done such a thing ? |
| 7 | ( 5 ) , on the other hand , seems to call into question the existence of any conditions which could have led to someone leaving Pa unattended : the speaker can not understand how anyone could have done such a thing . |
| 8 | She drove fearlessly up a narrow dirt-track road that wound steeply between scented pine trees because she was still mad that Fernando could have done such a thing . |
| 9 | How could I have done such a thing ? |
| 10 | How could I have done such a thing ? |
| 11 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 12 | See if there 's any di cos I mean they 've done all the thing be before , so the thing is as up to the noo , they want to see if there 's any |
| 13 | She could n't understand why we had done such a thing . |
| 14 | Arguing once more from the personal to the universal , he concluded that those who had done such a thing to him were the enemies of all civilised society . |
| 15 | He would never himself have done such a thing to a brother king trouble . |