Example sentences of "[adv] have done " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the guy who 's pushing on has done is got from one holdup to the next holdup quicker than the next feller . |
| 2 | William Cobbett , the nineteenth-century essayist , perhaps has done more than anyone to influence our feelings about the rural . |
| 3 | He apparently has done quite a lot of good work in the past . |
| 4 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 5 | It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo . |
| 6 | Not when you see her come in the hall on a Monday morning at eight o'clock having done three hours . |
| 7 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 9 | So having done Woodrow Wilson this week , we will do Moses , next week . |
| 10 | For wee might justly have done it our selves without you , if we had thought it convenient ; … " |
| 11 | I hope regions/countries will continue to share these reports , as those who hitherto have done so have found the practice useful . |
| 12 | Consider , then , what geography and generation together have done for Darwin 's understanding of the problems of organic diversity and the origin of species . |
| 13 | Should Mr Goldin choose to attend any more fund-raising dinners of Noraid , the IRA 's American front , as he already has done this year , he can dine with no such blot of truth on his conscience . |
| 14 | This exercise in planning research from outside has done little good to patients with cancer , and the politicians have given place to others . |
| 15 | just do what the , what the industry outside has done and spiral down into producing lower and lower quality of services |
| 16 | Raskolnikov is not with us either , but in the novel 's final text he could not have done or said any of the things I have just mentioned . |
| 17 | The overlooked hood in the newspaper scanned by the parajournalist would not have done equally well , nor would the cudgel . |
| 18 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 19 | The owners of Rambo 's Hall , four businessmen , have stuck by Glover when those of lesser faith might not have done . |
| 20 | Yakovlev found this contrast with Nikol'sk bizarre and inexplicable , but he should not have done . |
| 21 | The concept of enforcement involves — as the word implies — the use of force , compulsion : one man 's right is enforced by others being compelled to do what they would not have done of their own free will . |
| 22 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 23 | Free speech has lost , and should not have done |
| 24 | Mrs Cresson 's appointment may have helped the Socialists somewhat but can not have done much for the Communists . |
| 25 | No doubt the now dispossessed Kurds and the Shiites have been surprised to learn that they did something they should not have done in the interests of geopolitical reality . |
| 26 | It can not have done the YF-23 any good that it was unable to kick the AMRAAMs out of its weapons bay on demand . |
| 27 | Lamb immediately took Malcolm off , which one felt Gooch would not have done , and West Indies built up their innings . |
| 28 | It can not have done his concentration any good , for after the Greenidge-Haynes partnership and a knock from Richardson wickets fell rapidly , Richards being caught off Malcolm for just one . |
| 29 | She should not have done so . |
| 30 | I could not have done these things any more than I could have killed my mother . |