Example sentences of "they have done [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What they 've done to the streets you used to know so well ? ’ |
| 32 | Just looking at what they 've done to me . |
| 33 | ‘ Harry d' you know what they 've done to her ? ’ |
| 34 | Have you seen what they 've done to Tannochbrae ? ’ |
| 35 | But when you see what they 've done to our world |
| 36 | I do n't know what they 've done to it to make it spread , but still . |
| 37 | Cos in that electric meter , I do n't know what they 've done to it ! |
| 38 | what they 've done to society . |
| 39 | But that poor customer , John — I am sorry to keep going back to you on it , I 'm just seeking clarification — that poor customer has got to prove to your satisfaction that it 's a mechanical breakdown and not a result of what they 've done to it or somebody 's , at any time , negligence in assembly . |
| 40 | ROS : It was a trying episode while it lasted , but they 've done with us now . |
| 41 | What they 've done with him there is remarkable ! |
| 42 | because what they 've done on that pattern , why they 've got so many different colours , where it mixes so you 've got your red and your |
| 43 | Otherwise there 's going to be chaos there if they do n't stop now and look within themselves instead of all of this interfering in other countries which they 've done in the past . |
| 44 | And how well the they 've done in that situation . |
| 45 | And then tick off what they 've done in the gaps . |
| 46 | This is what we look at in terms of er target of erm the er wallets we 're going to print and that is determined , not quite sure what the measurement is for estate agent it 's something to er to do combination of the number of peop er number of mailings they 've done in the last er twelve months and also the number of houses they have on their their books . |
| 47 | or which is one which they 've done in there , is take a specific dream which they 've had which is vivid to them |
| 48 | suppose they have to match the pattern otherwise it does look quite silly which is what they 've done in here , they have n't matched the patterns that wall there is it , it ai n't joined |
| 49 | oh , you know , that 's , that 's it because for thirteen years they have dismantled the social system , that 's what they 've done in thirteen years , so they ca n't say overnight , we 'll put it all back because there is n't , there , there is n't the finance there because they 've spent it all to have done what they 've done |
| 50 | Erm the forecast figure is our plan of getting to the end result , which is not the same thing , which is in a way it 's a bit like our overtime hours and some of the areas we said that we would spend X amount of hours in , in two months , we 've had to then change the shape of that and said we 'd have half of X over five months , so our forecast i is being done differently , cos they 've worked out the , the branch forecast quite significantly differently erm Jeremy went through , through most of th briefly most of the means of doing that this morning and it sounds a lot more sensible than what they 've done in the past . |
| 51 | What they 've done in a matter of a few weeks is put together a data bank of information that 's colossal , and they 're dealing with an enormous amount of , of distress and problems . |
| 52 | Britain 's social engineers had prided themselves on the ability to plan as they had done during the war . |
| 53 | In the 1740s the French in India would have been happy enough to ignore the war in Europe and remain neutral , as they had done during earlier European wars , mainly because previous emperors could maintain the peace . |
| 54 | In a wartime bulletin of 1942 , staff were advised to urge customers to bring their own receptacles for food shopping , as they had done during the Great War . |
| 55 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 56 | Presenting her with gifts including an art deco clock and a cheque , he thanked her and her husband , a former chairman of the residents ' association , for all they had done for Le Court . |
| 57 | People came out of the forest and went into the forest as they had done for centuries , making the deep tracks down Steep Ridgery . |
| 58 | When children who knew more and less did respond , they were consistent in differentiating their response from what they had done for more and for less . |
| 59 | The hot water pipes gurgled as they had done for ten years . |
| 60 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |