Example sentences of "have do [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Sally 's dying wish that he should throw himself into his role as country copper Inspector Reg Wexford — and that he has done with a vengeance . |
| 2 | The best she can do is to try to secure it by non-military , legal means , and this she has done with a fair measure of success . |
| 3 | I have used some of the things that he has done as a good example to myself . |
| 4 | The committee express their thanks for the work he has done in a voluntary capacity over the past months . |
| 5 | Nagel refers to Adam Smith whom he takes to be advocating , as a matter of reason , the restriction of moral judgment only to that which the agent has done in a narrow sense because to attribute responsibility for that beyond the agent 's control seems irrational and is akin to strict liability . |
| 6 | Something no-one has done in a balloon before . |
| 7 | The second reason has to do with a simple fact of communication . |
| 8 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 9 | It has to do with a lack of influence . |
| 10 | I , I and you could 've done with a queen . |
| 11 | but erm I think she could 've done with a bit of company . |
| 12 | ‘ That would 've done for a start . ’ |
| 13 | Well that 's what he said oh no when he went to sleep I did I 'd done about a page this is what I read out , I went Professor Plop and the Time Machine . |
| 14 | If he hopped into bed with you that night , he was only doing what he 'd done with a hundred and one others . ’ |
| 15 | Oh and we 'd love to do swimming , erm , because we 'd done as a surprise for Carla for Christmas cos I mean we said the kids are getting older now , Dave heard it on the radio , erm , for one fifty a head , erm they were opening Guildford 's swimming pool erm , from ten till twe twelve ? |
| 16 | AS a student , all I 'd done in a hospital was two weeks as a medical student , wandering around . |
| 17 | ‘ When I think how it was when I joined up … you 're not so badly off down in Florence where at least you 've got a central canteen , but ever since we 've had to do without a resident housekeeper in the smaller stations we 've had to spend half our time teaching mothers ’ boys to cook pasta . ’ |
| 18 | She spoke as she might have done to a nervous child . |
| 19 | Silly and stupid , the sort of thing he might have done as a child , pathetic for a man of his age . |
| 20 | On being introduced he made an effort not to avert his eyes , as one felt he would have done as a young man . |
| 21 | Although , at that moment I could have done with a little less myself . |
| 22 | ‘ I could have done with a hand . ’ |
| 23 | Her red suit was smart , but too bright a colour for her pale English pink and white skin , her brown hair could have done with a wash and her nails were ragged and bitten . |
| 24 | He knew he could really have done with a saw . |
| 25 | He could have done with a saw . |
| 26 | I think he could have done with a general chapter on the French State , which would have placed Diderot more firmly in his times and made clearer the difficulties he encountered . |
| 27 | I could have done with a little more natural variation in the sound , but seeing that all Kirk is probably going to do with it is leave it on the neck pickup , knock all the middle off at the amp and turn it up to an excruciating volume , it does n't have to be the most variable guitar in the world . |
| 28 | The little devils could have done with a firm hand ! ’ |
| 29 | I could have done with a few . |
| 30 | Chelmsford could certainly have done with a bigger pool of players . |