Example sentences of "[pers pn] have done " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I have to say I thought I 'd done brilliantly . |
| 32 | She said : ‘ I brushed past a girl as I went to the toilet and she yelled I 'd done it deliberately . |
| 33 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 34 | It was very frustrating because I 'd made my debut when Ken Brown was manager and I 'd done really well . ’ |
| 35 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 36 | But once I 'd done it , I swore I 'd help others do it . ’ |
| 37 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
| 38 | I 'd done five but I could only remember one . |
| 39 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
| 40 | AS a student , all I 'd done in a hospital was two weeks as a medical student , wandering around . |
| 41 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 42 | Remembering the first time I 'd done the climb , back in 1964 , an echo of precise-edged delicacy tingled in my mind . |
| 43 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 44 | ‘ I thought I 'd done well by managing to last two and a half minutes without coming up for air he said . ’ |
| 45 | I 'd done really well in the test , he said , gaining the joint highest mark in the class . |
| 46 | By early evening I 'd done five more flights and was beginning to feel confident steering the paraglider . |
| 47 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
| 48 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 49 | But that I 'd done before . |
| 50 | I cam away feeling better because I 'd saved myself quite a bit of money , and I 'd done my bit towards helping the environment . |
| 51 | ‘ This was in some way part of the whole thing , that I 'd blurt out what I 'd done and she 'd ask to see and I 'd have it on hand to show her . ’ |
| 52 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 53 | ‘ I had a call from 20th Century Fox — I 'd done Sleeping With The Enemy for them — and arranged to meet the director in Atlanta . |
| 54 | Stuart Balmforth , with whom I 'd done part of my National Service in the Canal Zone , was now the co-owner and a director of British Midland . |
| 55 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 56 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 57 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 58 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 59 | CHRISTOPHER : Well , I left school after I 'd done my A levels . |
| 60 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |