Example sentences of "done a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Luiza had developed a passion for Chinese food and Hochhauser 's first and only Chinese restaurant had done a roaring lunchtime trade as a result . ) |
| 2 | Oh it 's it 's quite common , everybody does it if you have a vic if you study Victorians anyone who a Victorian and they all they did all done out , chairs er table space at the front , they did drill in the playground they played with tops and hoops in the playground , all the children the m parents hired costumes from Fairy Godmothers Fairy Godmother 's done a roaring trade especially |
| 3 | The Army has done a grand job of work in the initial stages of rehabilitation , and without its aid progress would have been far slower . |
| 4 | Milne — who made a brief appearance in the game against Wombats — has done a grand job getting sponsorship from , among others , Royal Mail Scotland , while the luminaries he has persuaded to play include Roger Baird , Finlay Calder , Jim Calder , Jim Aitken , Euan Kennedy , Alan Tomes and Jim Renwick . |
| 5 | has done a tremendous amount of meticulous research on these valuable records . |
| 6 | He was the ‘ guiding light ’ who ‘ has done a tremendous amount of good work for the club ; he has gained the confidence of everyone ’ . |
| 7 | For whose efforts on behalf of the fund I I really do thank them and I 'd like to make a special thanks to Lady Chandler , Lucy stepped into the breach as acting chair about a year ago and since I was elected has done a tremendous amount to help me settle in quickly and I hope effectively . |
| 8 | ‘ Jim Smith has done a tremendous job at Porstmouth , ’ says Lyall , ‘ They play quick-pass football and any team who play the ball early can always create space . |
| 9 | ‘ Andre has done a tremendous job , explaining in great detail what happens when someone dies and when they are cremated . |
| 10 | ‘ The state oil company , PDVSA , has done a tremendous job since nationalisation and is now ranked among the largest and best in the world , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Only that someone had done a stupid thing , from his point of view . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've done a nice job here . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And you 've done a nice supper . ’ |
| 14 | Or you 've done a tiny bit and you need something that 's not |
| 15 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 16 | ‘ She 's inundated with work over there she 's just done a 13-part sitcom for CBS , for example . ’ |
| 17 | By the time the main course arrived — an unappetizing leg of chicken in breadcrumbs accompanied by boiled sprouts — Loretta had done a complete U-turn and was fervently hoping that Koogan would consent to lend them a key . |
| 18 | Can we actually pause there cos you 've done a good bit of digging on that one . |
| 19 | If they last twenty years before being replaced they have done a good service . |
| 20 | but if you think about it , if you 've done a good job , you 've done a good presentation , done a good fact find and they buy , then they should be very happy at that moment in time and er it was stupid because that is the right time to actually ask |
| 21 | Anne , the Pixie Second , often ran errands for her , and at one time or another most of the Brownies in the Pack had done a good turn for the little old lady . |
| 22 | ‘ Why does n't her nephew send her the money for the fare ? ’ asked Mary , one of the Sprites , who had often done a good turn for Miss Miggs . |
| 23 | It was very hard work but you felt , well I 've done a good day 's work when you 'd finished . |
| 24 | The Computer Programmer threw his bat down , in the reckless manner allowed only to one who knows he 's done a good batting job and is respected by his fellows . |
| 25 | but if you think about it , if you 've done a good job , you 've done a good presentation , done a good fact find and they buy , then they should be very happy at that moment in time and er it was stupid because that is the right time to actually ask |
| 26 | Each part of that particular structure , you 've done a good step one , what must that lead to ? |
| 27 | The Attorney General had , under instructions , done a good deal of work on the issue . |
| 28 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |
| 29 | She had done a good deal more than that . |
| 30 | The growth of western power and activity in Asia had done a good deal to extend the geographical scope of European-type diplomacy . |