Example sentences of "[vb -s] done [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BBC Network Television director Will Wyatt said : ‘ Jonathan has done one of the toughest jobs in television for longer than almost all of his predecessors . ’ |
| 2 | Cleese is someone who has done one of the most difficult things in a public life — assessed his own worth without false modesty . |
| 3 | Grafting an additional polarizing region into the anterior margin has done two things — the limb bud has widened and the polarizing region has re-specified the position of the cells in the anterior part of the limb so that they form additional digits . |
| 4 | It is true the man is bad , but he has done two years , almost , in prison . |
| 5 | Sara Fisher at A M Heath has done two deals with HarperCollins . |
| 6 | This year has done six major floatations of northern companies . |
| 7 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 8 | Their other son , Peter , who has done 13 years in the RAF , served in the Gulf War and , says his proud father , was mentioned in despatches . |
| 9 | Among its assets are the Grand Theatre , its charmingly over-decorated and atmospheric Leeds home , with an Italianate intimacy to its horseshoe-shaped auditorium ; an orchestra and chorus , young in heart , age , and sound , who seems to get better every time I hear them ; and a musical director , David Lloyd-Jones , who has done twelve years of sterling service and will be promisingly succeeded in August by Paul Daniel . |
| 10 | It is very warm and rather bulkier than the old one , though the nice girl in John Lewis told me they get thin and tired after about nine years — and mine has done twelve , so it is going to go to for our use there . |
| 11 | ‘ It has done forty thousand miles , ’ he was saying . |
| 12 | Only a handful of surgeons are able to carry out this procedure , but Mr Damato has done 300 such operations probably the largest total worldwide . |
| 13 | erm in that situation I fail to understand how that can necessarily be to be honest , because the vehicle in question has done eighty thousand miles . |
| 14 | It 's done one thousand miles . |
| 15 | Okay erm If he 's done two hundred miles , how long has he been riding for ? |
| 16 | So when the car 's done ninety five thousand it 's worth nothing . |
| 17 | So if it 's done ten thousand miles , we 'd take a tenth of ten thousand , we 'd take a thousand pounds off this . |
| 18 | For example , what might apply erm on a one year old vehicle that 's done ten thousand miles , might not apply on a vehicle that 's done a hundred thousand miles and is ten years old . |