Example sentences of "have do [art] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jamie would never have done a silly thing like climbing up the archway . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 10 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 11 | So they er would have done the same thing in those days , the children , and erm it fitted in to the easter holiday time to have the actual ploughing match , you see ? |
| 12 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 13 | Then , suddenly , humping her shoulders , Sophie said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to do the correct thing and inform them that we 're going to set up here . |
| 14 | Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis . |
| 15 | but you ca n't you ca n't dip into modules of that can you do n't you have to do the whole thing ? |