Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] had done " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , I was not prepared just to accept him with no experience at all and I asked him to give me some sort of evidence about the amount of flying he had done . |
| 32 | Last year 's crop of court cases at the Old Bailey reported in national newspapers included : a French master who had a store of pornographic photos of teenage pupils dating back ten years ; a religious education master who simulated sexual intercourse in front of his pupils ( the Old Bailey heard he had done this little party trick dozens of times at different schools ) ; a primary school teacher who was allowed to go on teaching after being found guilty of ‘ lewd , indecent and libidinous practices ’ against ten- and 11-year old boys ; and a music teacher in Sussex who had raped , attempted to rape and indecently assaulted hundreds of girls over many years . |
| 33 | ‘ But , darling , suppose I had done the same when I was expecting you ? |
| 34 | When I tell you about your Osphronemus gourami you may wish you had done so . |
| 35 | She forced herself to believe she had done the only possible thing . |
| 36 | Then an owl suddenly hooted nearby , making her jump , and she hastily decided she had done enough for one evening . |
| 37 | Mr Blum tried his supporters saying they had done better than predicted . |
| 38 | The letters were placed in the House of Commons library , with a covering note from Mr Nicholas Ridley , the present Trade Secretary , to Mr Gordon Brown , Labour 's trade spokesman , saying he had done this in view of the public interest . |
| 39 | I enjoyed this day , felt I had done something worthwhile and was grateful for the generosity of my sponsors who contributed to such worthy cause . |
| 40 | I felt I had done what was necessary . |
| 41 | I knew I had done something when I went down in the tackle . ’ |
| 42 | I knew I had done the right thing , and now there would be no second monster to follow the first . |
| 43 | ‘ I really thought I had done enough after being recalled against Pakistan . ’ |
| 44 | Said Wright : ‘ I thought I had done it . |
| 45 | Thought I had done . |
| 46 | Cos I thought I had done it . |
| 47 | Penelope thought it wiser not to point out that the Stores would certainly be closed by the time she got there , but felt she had done enough in showing her which bus to take . |
| 48 | She could not believe it , not because she was not used to getting flowers from men [ she and her charm could make men act on impulse ] , but she felt she had done nothing out of the ordinary to merit it . |
| 49 | But to allow herself to be dictated to in this way when she knew she had done nothing wrong was tantamount to admitting guilt . |
| 50 | In the garden in her white dress , she knew she had done the wrong thing . |
| 51 | A midwife with 25 years experience , she thought she had done a good job — then she discovered the truth . |
| 52 | As de glamorisation exercises went , she thought she had done very well . |
| 53 | When I ran into the kitchen the oven was lying on the ground and thought she had done it . |
| 54 | We felt we had done all we could there for the moment and did n't want to get lazy . |
| 55 | I was absolutely devastated because we thought we had done nothing wrong . |
| 56 | They felt they had done well enough already to endure the service at Dull , and that there was no need to martyr themselves yet again ( the Reverend William MacIvor 's sermons were notoriously long and repetitious ) . |
| 57 | The couple thought they had done the right thing by paying £140 for a house-buyer 's survey , which had given the house a clean bill of health with only some minor exceptions . |
| 58 | Charles constantly felt he had done nothing to earn it ; there was no feeling of satisfaction in a job well done . |
| 59 | Wordsworth 's first publications , An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches , appeared in 1793 ; the aim was to bring his name before the public as he felt he had done nothing at university — and , of course , the faint hope of making money . |
| 60 | He might still only be a juvenile who had never flown freely on the wind but he felt he had done nothing to warrant the abuse and fury of an eagle whose name he did not even know . |