Example sentences of "had do his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had done his initial research on jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as varied as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 2 | The West German clubs , Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen , both wanted him , but ‘ Jacki ’ had done his homework . |
| 3 | Looking at the branched hanging lamp of teak and smoky glass , the velvet curtains and the big colour television set , Wexford decided that Hatton had done his wife proud . |
| 4 | Hatton had done his jobs for McCloy and the last one had been something spectacular . |
| 5 | Mrs Huntley sighed ; her brother whom she had loved , but knew to be self-indulgent to a fault , had done his niece real harm by leaving so much of his money away from the girl who had confidently believed herself to be his favourite thing on earth . |
| 6 | I had lost a father , ‘ someone to watch over me ’ who had done his best to do so , though he had failed . |
| 7 | By the time it was all over , Norman had done his first mix , a poppy version of Eric B and Rakim 's ‘ I Know You Got Soul ’ which sampled The Jackson Five 's ‘ ABC ’ with a typical lack of concern for cool . |
| 8 | Had all four defendants committed the brutal crimes , or had just two of the brother perpetrated these heinous events , later to be joined by William who had done his best to abet them after the event ? |
| 9 | He had done his part . |
| 10 | And that was what he had once driven when he had done his military service — driven a Leopard tank . |
| 11 | Fined £1 a week until he had done his penance . |
| 12 | After Freud had done his worst it turned out that there was still an ‘ unanalysed residue ’ when he had a major relapse some years later . |
| 13 | She wriggled her skirt down over her thighs and when she risked a look she was relieved to discover Edward had done his trousers up again . |
| 14 | He had done his best . |
| 15 | Jonadab had made it clear that he had done his son-in-law a favour in allowing him to jump the queue and buy four of his grey shirehorses and now Stephen had to screw up his courage and confess that one was dead . |
| 16 | He had done his best to make Harvey feel at home . |
| 17 | He had done his best to destroy her , and she was still here . |
| 18 | Lowe had worked as a researcher for the Financial Times , Hayling had done his stint with the BBC , and of course they had dabbled in the Big Flame paper and other fringe publications . |
| 19 | Normally someone at or near the scene would be brewing tea but Dalgliesh had-no intention of using the washroom even to boil a kettle until the scene of crime officer had done his work . |
| 20 | Some records say that he dismissed the White Lions and the rest of his retinue , claiming that he wanted a moment alone to contemplate the blade that had done his people so much harm . |
| 21 | Many of the most wealthy merchants and industrialists were to be found in St Petersburg , where Peter had done his best to concentrate commercial activity . |
| 22 | Carter had done his best in his campaign to capitalize on this negative mood , yet the margin of his success at the polls had been small . |
| 23 | Mosley had done his homework . |
| 24 | When he had done his roof ride and the sick feeling had been replaced by a feeling of triumph , he would have a cigarette . |
| 25 | When , in 1594 , John Parker obtained a grant of a new office for keeping pleadings in Chancery , two of the Six Clerks , who had done his work previously , wrote that ‘ the King by his letters patents may not oust the common people of their rights and inheritance which they have in the common law of this land ’ . |
| 26 | He had done his initial research on Jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as various as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 27 | Mervyn Pinfield , feeling he had done his job overcoming the show 's technical worries and acting as adviser to Verity Lambert , wanted to return to the more active area of Directing . |
| 28 | The next few years were difficult for them all , but when Eb came home , gassed and disabled , he had done his best to put the shop back on a business footing — going in every day to work behind the counter , keeping the books , and not letting customers run up bills they could n't pay . |
| 29 | In the nick south of the river where Nelson had done his early constable training , such a case would have been referred to as an AFD . |
| 30 | With tears , Jeremiah had done his work . |