Example sentences of "have done [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What we have done over the past two years is to improve on our ability to retain the ball in contact , to drive very successfully as units ( as the All Blacks found to their cost in Lille ) and to deep those drives going . |
| 2 | We do appreciate you Steffi , for everything you have done over the years and for that special week in Brighton . |
| 3 | On the wider issue , it has been made clear , not simply from what I have said but through what I have done over many years — in an earlier ministerial capacity and in my present one — that we are more than willing to take action where it is shown to be necessary , once we are sure that such action would be well-judged . |
| 4 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 5 | Erm , on entertainment , we 're spending a lot of money on organic growth and have done over the past two or three years and er , it 's very well spent but again , we 're growing our businesses , erm , er , rather than acquiring them . |
| 6 | It is he who must answer before Parliament for anything that his officials have done under his authority , and , if for an important matter he selected an official of such junior standing that he could not be expected competently to perform the work , the minister would have to answer for that in Parliament . |
| 7 | I would point out how much better pensioners have done under this Government than under our predecessor in terms of pensioners ' net incomes . |
| 8 | Books on art appreciation will also concern themselves with formal questions , as they have done since the beginning of the century . |
| 9 | I feel better about it now than I have done since the accident , ’ she admitted . |
| 10 | ‘ Tomorrow we will face the Orcish scum and will triumph , as men have done since the time of Sigmar ! ’ |
| 11 | Children were splashing in the beck , their cries echoing from the cove face , a courting couple were doing what courting couples have done since time immemorial , oblivious to the world and its wife passing by , and old ladies on a coach trip from Bradford were walking gently through the sunny afternoon , all grey hair , handbags and giggles . |
| 12 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 13 | ‘ Why , ’ she said sweetly , rising and picking up her clothes , and her bag , now empty of the articles which she had given J. D. O'Connor , ‘ tonight I am going to turn in early , read and rest — such a change after all I have done since this time last week . |
| 14 | All in honour of the Macmillan Nurses , so it was probably about the most worthwhile thing I have done since becoming an MP . |
| 15 | Yes , we have done since the beginning , about erm twelve/thirteen years ago . |
| 16 | I have done with excuses , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I have done with excuses towards myself and towards others , that is the meaning of the right time , he wrote , that I have done with excuses , that I have used up all the excuses and reached the bottom of excuses , that I have wrung the neck of excuses , that I have settled the hash of excuses . |
| 17 | I have done with excuses , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I have done with excuses towards myself and towards others , that is the meaning of the right time , he wrote , that I have done with excuses , that I have used up all the excuses and reached the bottom of excuses , that I have wrung the neck of excuses , that I have settled the hash of excuses . |
| 18 | I have done with excuses , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I have done with excuses towards myself and towards others , that is the meaning of the right time , he wrote , that I have done with excuses , that I have used up all the excuses and reached the bottom of excuses , that I have wrung the neck of excuses , that I have settled the hash of excuses . |
| 19 | ‘ Both might murder the other and have done with it . ’ |
| 20 | Whether they will emerge as market leaders will depend on whether the publishers flood the market with comparable volumes , as they have done with general geology texts . |
| 21 | The only alternative is to butcher the basses around , which I have done with various instruments in the past , like my B C Rich — a real mess ! |
| 22 | The argument was over Zack 's decision to close with the negotiator called Quinn and have done with the whole thing at two million dollars ransom . |
| 23 | But why go to the expense of elaborate shrouds and superfine linen coffin linings ; why not just put the naked body into the coffin and have done with it ? |
| 24 | Here I want to point out — as I have done with other features in the feminist profile — how difficult it is to identify the linguistic correlates of competition and cooperation . |
| 25 | ‘ Why do n't you just change the paper 's name to New Morrissey Express and have done with it ? ’ goes the usual enquiry , ‘ he 's on your cover every bloody week anyway ! ’ |
| 26 | Why do n't we just call it New Mancunian Express and have done with it ? |
| 27 | Why do n't we just give Napoleon the keys to Berlin and have done with it ? |
| 28 | ‘ We ( in the USA ) could organise stockholder resolutions and protests about this as we have done with the Nestle company and others on the use of infant formula in developing nations where such distribution has a negative effect on the health of children , ’ writes Dr Chain . |
| 29 | But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC . |
| 30 | On 28 September 1911 Hermann Jochade , secretary of the International Transport Workers ' Federation in a letter to its secretary Arthur Cannon expressed his surprise at the branch 's actions , and noted " I have myself investigated the workings of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , as I have done with other unions connected with the International Transport Workers ' Federation in Great Britain , and have pleasure in stating and testifying that the Seamen 's Union is one of the best organised and conducted of all unions I have made enquiries into . |