Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] had done in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary showed him the work she had done in the garden , and they talked as they cut and cleared . |
| 2 | She heard words like ‘ impulsive ’ , ‘ trusting ’ , ‘ hot-tempered ’ being mentioned , and she slotted the adjectives into her own life , thinking back to all the things she had done in the past which conformed with the personality being dissected by the astrologer . |
| 3 | They were new shoes but already scuffed and dusty from the amount of walking he had done in the past few days . |
| 4 | He lost himself in its possibilities , its immensity , he went far out , and came back dazed , stunned by horizons , often with sketches he had done in a hurry and afterwards flew at with the axe of a black crayon , or a pen loaded with black ink , hacking at them fiercely , savagely , to kill off the sentimental and picturesque that was so much in vogue . |
| 5 | And she longed to feel him wrap his arms protectively around her again — she wanted to feel safe the way she had done in those brief moments on the terrace the other evening when for one miraculous instant she had believed there was something real between them . |
| 6 | any way she said its nothing like the tiles she had done in the kitchen |
| 7 | The electrical power workers , however , did not respond in the forthright way they had done in the general strike of May 1974 . |