Example sentences of "had do what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early yesterday morning the West German Embassy in Prague had done what it always denied it would do , and closed its doors . |
| 2 | It drew to an end in April 1964 with Mr Mandela 's four-hour speech from the dock , in which he defended the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe and said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society , ‘ an ideal for which I am prepared to die ’ . |
| 3 | Frazer , through setting out to study an essential ritual of the primitive dead , had done what Eliot hoped modern literature , including Sweeney Agonistes would do . |
| 4 | By the time Kádár resigned in 1988 , he had come to be thought of as a kind of benign pragmatist , who had done what he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 5 | He had done what was hoped of him , always , had four A's at A Level , a First , a PhD . |
| 6 | Here , if he did n't return , Primaflora would receive his letter , and his parcel , and would understand why he had done what he had done . |
| 7 | He had done what the Phoenicians had done , and the Byzantines , the Romans , the Crusaders , the Genoese and the Mamelukes . |
| 8 | She had done what she could . |
| 9 | Satisfied that he had done what he had been instructed , the young American walked back down to Bayswater Road and soon hailed a cab for Heathrow . |
| 10 | The first thing she asked was if I had done what I promised |
| 11 | I had done what a lot of people do when struck with shyness — tried to detach myself from a situation because I anticipated rejection . |
| 12 | He had done what all Europe had failed to do : he had stopped Bonaparte . |
| 13 | I felt I had done what was necessary . |
| 14 | Alice thought it would be easier to phone someone like that than her own mother if you had done what she had done , but she could be wrong there . |
| 15 | Samuel Reichmann , the father of the multi-billionaire sons , had done what Klein said he had done in Tangier . |
| 16 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 17 | The scene of crime team had done what they could , which was n't much . |
| 18 | Afterwards I had no sense that I had been forgiven , but I had done what I was called upon to do and there it must rest . |
| 19 | She had done what nobody could have expected her to do . |
| 20 | Joe held out his hand , they shook hands and walked away from each other , Joe feeling that he had done what he could to save Maureen from wrecking her life and suffering years of pain but troubled by sympathy and liking for Chris . |
| 21 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 22 | Ruth had done what they did . |
| 23 | On neither occasion could he say why he had done what he did , nor had he done it in the company of other pupils he wanted to impress . |
| 24 | She had done what should have been his job . |
| 25 | Wycliffe looked at his watch and wondered whether Glynn had done what was necessary . |
| 26 | He had done what she had wanted and now she was sorry . |
| 27 | Feeling that he had done what he could , Redpath walked back to the steps . |
| 28 | He would not swear that the Prince of Wales had enjoyed every minute , but at least he , Auguste Didier , had done what he could . |
| 29 | He had done what he had to do . |
| 30 | This was no doubt very wicked of them , but I bear them no animosity at all : I had done what I wanted to do , which was to obtain a glimpse of the Caucasus from the most easternly town of any size in Turkey . |