Example sentences of "done to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's what she done to hers and it looks really nice . |
| 2 | Everybody was here for the same thing to be done to them . |
| 3 | Much of what is typed in is discarded , because the computer is really looking for key words which refer to files kept in its disc store and what should be done to them . |
| 4 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 5 | The hostility that siblings show can therefore commence at a very young age : 2-year-olds become increasingly adept at asking for mother 's help in a sibling conflict and can be quite explicit about what the sibling has done to them . |
| 6 | England found nobody to do what the Pakistan quickies — Wasim Akram in particular — had done to them . |
| 7 | WZ966 , WZ967 and WZ968 had had several modifications done to them which included removing the gun turrets from the fuselage and fitting extra aerials . |
| 8 | According to the first theory , which is the one the Greeks themselves prefer , they behave as they do in the public side of life because of what history has done to them . |
| 9 | The ruling means that a lot of people , most of them women , are unlikely to be compensated for serious psychological damage done to them at very young ages . ’ |
| 10 | Things families had done to them , parents , husbands ; things they 'd never get over . |
| 11 | By this they mean that people both avoid intruding upon each other 's territory ( physical territory , a particular field of knowledge , a friendship ) and also seek to enlarge the territory of others — in Lakoff 's terms , make the other person feel good — presumably on the assumption that the same will be done to them . |
| 12 | Because it keeps happening , boys and girls in their summer holiday keep get getting taken away by people they do n't know and nasty things done to them . |
| 13 | Although a lot of his story is still relevant to us cos you can see it in today 's life when people stand up for themselves or stand up for their faith or what they believe in and you look around you , you can see violence and being done to them . |
| 14 | The villain of the piece may begin a hero and even contain some hope ( Lenny , from Of Mice and Men ) then a flaw becomes apparent , and they then disembowel or impair themselves ( or have it done to them ) as an act of retribution . |
| 15 | Yes , I feel that it 's very much a case that they have things done to them all the time and our pupils , a lot of them , are quite sort of apathetic in decision-making and are quite happy to accept , or appear to be happy to accept , whatever anybody decides should be done for them , to them . |
| 16 | He glared across the breakfast table at them , quenching the morning cheerfulness in the kitchen , and fiercely examined them at tea-time as if to see what the day had done to them . |
| 17 | His countenance was bland , sympathetic to both parties , concerned that both should have justice done to them , and be satisfied . |
| 18 | The experience of witnessing psychosocially normal people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds telling the stories of their individual experience and what has been done to them , would be the best method of ensuring that sufferers from addictive disease are not treated as dismissively in the future as they have tended to be in the past . |
| 19 | Looking some people in the face I could see what 15 years of hard work had done to them . |
| 20 | This magazine as a whole attempts to provide some of that missing sense of movement by tracking down individual people that the NI once profiled to see what time has done to them . |
| 21 | ’ Thus if the goods require anything to be done to them in order for them to be ready for delivery or in order to make them comply with the contract , they will not be in a deliverable state . |
| 22 | Will he warn the British people of the damage that could be done to them and the danger to their way of life and democracy ? |
| 23 | well they were always against me , well Bill was during the war , what I 'd done to them , finished all the decorating , put shelves up , go on the slate to put his aerial up , he would n't go up , I had to climb out my bedroom window onto the gutter and its a wonder I did n't kill myself then , put his aerial up and |
| 24 | looked what he 's done to them |
| 25 | cos er , there 's there everyone get 's something done to them , but nothing , nothing like erm , |
| 26 | We leave that to the specialists , and indeed I think that the reason why we 're particularly concerned with disasters which happen in the poorer parts of the world , the developing countries , is because they seem to have less of a voice to be able to complain about what is done to them . |
| 27 | Oh thank you , oh I love these , what you done to them ? |
| 28 | This underlines perhaps the damage done to him by his father 's death , which appears to have robbed him of the memory of many of the normal sensations . |
| 29 | My thoughts went back to yesterday evening and Jock at No. 4 Commando , the damage done to him by a German mortar bomb , his head almost split in two and a leg blown off . |
| 30 | He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why . |