Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [vb past] be done [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went on and delivered a fast three minutes of the cleanest material I had , most of which had been done to death already by every comic who went before me and would no doubt be done again by those who followed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It was a combination of shock , pain and exhaustion and the overall effect of what had been done to her . ’ |
| 4 | She could no longer bring to the man she loved her untouched innocence , and , worse than that , she could not bear his lovemaking because it reminded her so bitterly of what had been done to her . |
| 5 | He suspected that perhaps McAllister , always so gallant in facing life , as he had now seen on several occasions , had tried to suppress , to crush down the awful memory of what had been done to her , had refused to give way to grief , to shed healing tears , until in his arms something had reminded her so strongly of what had passed and broken the barriers her will had erected . |