Example sentences of "do what [pron] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice thought it would be easier to phone someone like that than her own mother if you had done what she had done , but she could be wrong there . |
| 2 | He had done what she had wanted and now she was sorry . |
| 3 | Here , if he did n't return , Primaflora would receive his letter , and his parcel , and would understand why he had done what he had done . |
| 4 | Those years were not long enough to do what he had hoped to do for Durham , but long enough to know what needed to be done . |
| 5 | And Len had witnessed his reaction and this had prompted Len to do what he had said he would n't do again , and that was to try and persuade him to accompany him home . |
| 6 | He had been in the city for three weeks now and he had not even started to do what he had come here for . |
| 7 | Instead , he felt only a strong desire to bring the whole thing to a finish … to do what he had come to do , risking life and limb in the process . |
| 8 | Even before he got to her she was mesmerised , the dark eyes holding her with complete ease , and she had to bring herself quickly back to the present to do what she had planned and set matters on an even footing straight away . |
| 9 | But again is always an illusion , wrote Harsnet , for it would also become clear , the second time round , after several weeks , that one was not doing what one had hoped to do . |
| 10 | On the spot he declared his intention of doing what they had refused to do . |
| 11 | In the course of these operations they killed and wounded more than 500 people , but even with these drastic measures they did not succeed in doing what they had set out to do . |
| 12 | And then , for his sake , she did what she had read should be done : raised her legs and arched her back and held him embraced and reached her mouth to his , and began to enjoy what she did . |
| 13 | And now she did what she had promised herself she would do , and lifted her foot and aimed it at the nun 's shin . |
| 14 | In the end I simply did what I had done in writing at full length but I compressed the whole into the 5000-word stipulated maximum length . |
| 15 | The schoolteacher realized that his guests were tongue-tied in this strange place and , after a few openings had brought no more than murmurs of self-conscious or self-absorbed politeness , he did what he had found best to do on such occasions . |