Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] done [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having played in the previous winning Eisenhower Trophy team with distinction I think he can feel hard done by . |
| 2 | Do you think he would not see right done to you ? ’ |
| 3 | Sleep well , and be sure they will see right done to you . |
| 4 | so in the end I said to him look we 've so really it could have perhaps done with , I suppose if we 'd been sensible it could , because it needed , the gas fire needs to come out , it does need a lot of , still really needs a lot of things doing to it . |
| 5 | In fact in my own way , though I 'm not as clear as some honourable members , I was actually doing that erm but er er I was pointing out that these were better than most although all of them could we could have perhaps done without . |
| 6 | Could have just done with tomorrow in . |
| 7 | And heavy rain , at this period of the siege , was something that the garrison could have well done without . |
| 8 | Two of the latter were fighting for possession of a rather inebriated seaman on the quayside by Venturous one afternoon , an unusual entertainment but one we could have well done without . |
| 9 | If your council fails to do small , urgent repairs , for which it is legally responsible ( eg a blocked drain or broken water heater ) , you can have then done by a builder . |
| 10 | Before he had fully conceived the idea of The Four Quartets , he had remarked that what drew him to Beethoven was that in these last works the composer did what he himself had sought to do in poetry — and may have actually done in ‘ forty or fifty lines ’ — namely to ‘ get beyond ’ that art . |