Example sentences of "[vb mod] have do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards he asked himself whether he did all that he should have done about the miners and the working men . |
| 2 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 3 | I 'm doing what I should have done from the start . ’ |
| 4 | We would then be able to do what Conservatives should have done from the outset — pick up and operate a tried and trusted system and concentrate on dealing over time and in proper order with imperfections that had developed . |
| 5 | Second , Y never gave possession of the car to his customer ( M ) as he should have done after the finance company ( Z ) had accepted the hire purchase proposal . |
| 6 | A Labour government would start to do what the Tories should have done in the oil-rich years . |
| 7 | We then had a rousing Le Corsaire pas de deux , with Elvira Tarasov and Igor Zelensky dancing just as Ruzimatov should have done in the Diana and Actaeon , with technical bravura but putting the choreography and music first , and themselves only as the servants of dance as an art . |
| 8 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 9 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 10 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 11 | But he goes on , he goes on and the body of his evidence my Lord is to speculate as to what he would have done and what Mr should have done in the circumstances of this er case and reference is made to the professional conduct guide in paragraph three two . |
| 12 | In respect of in public services , it was a minefield for a long time and perhaps we did not react as we should have done in the early eighties . |
| 13 | The bay to his left was labelled ‘ Fiction A-H ’ , and to his right was the cash desk looking much the same as it must have done on the day the shop was first opened . |
| 14 | The kitchen is particularly fascinating with its full array of cooking equipment looking much as it must have done in the 18th Century . |
| 15 | It stands solidly still , much as it must have done in the eighteen hundreds , though minus : |
| 16 | ‘ If you blow my brains out , you 'll have to do without the money . ’ |
| 17 | Just once , as the waves came up over her feet , she hesitated and gave a short gasp , as anyone might have done at the sudden cold . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose they might have done at the beginning , ’ he said , ‘ but by the time I can remember we had become part of the place really . |
| 19 | Certainly some of the productions that we are responsible for , as I have said , are controversial , and some of the public might not really want them and might dispute their validity , but I think what it is an indication of is the fact that people are short of money and have to make quite sure that they are getting the best value for what they are paying for and they ca n't afford to go to the theatre as regularly as they might have done in the past . |
| 20 | These differences might have to do with the aspects of context which are differentiated and generalized , or with the distribution of responsibility for denoting these aspects within the formal resources of the language , within its lexis , morphology , and syntax . |
| 21 | I could 've done without the naughty words in the scrolly , but this is a minor niggle ( prude ! — Ed ) — Dutch Breeze 1 & 2 are mighty fine demos . |
| 22 | And what 's more , how Leeds could have done with the Frenchman as they crashed to their fourth defeat in five games . |
| 23 | We could have done with the masks upstairs at the ‘ Music Journalism ’ gathering , where a group of rock writers were taking themselves — and their , ahem , Art — extremely seriously . |
| 24 | He refrained from ringing Fred up and stored Daisy 's dividend cheques in a drawer without cashing them , although he could have done with the money . |
| 25 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
| 26 | ‘ It seems to me that both you and Peter could have done with the friendly shoulder of a mother to pour out your troubles to — you 're reliving something from your past . |
| 27 | I could have done with the two hundred and thirty quid though |
| 28 | However , one could have done without the editors ' patriotic digs at Australian journalists who are certainly no more chauvinist than British fans with typewriters ( or indeed television cameras ) . |
| 29 | Dougal could have done without the B-movie dialogue . |
| 30 | In particular , she could have done without the bad jokes . |