Example sentences of "[pers pn] had done " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 2 | Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all . |
| 3 | But I had done so not in the belief that indefinite British occupation of the Zone was practicable but in protest against a treaty which purported to give Britain rights of reoccupation and a policy which proclaimed that Cyprus , Jordan and Kenya afforded adequate geographical alternatives . |
| 4 | I had done all the cooking and was waiting for my husband to come home . |
| 5 | It is all up to you — and I decided that I was never going to say anything to her because I had done it all on my own . |
| 6 | But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done . |
| 7 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |
| 8 | I no longer saw them , indeed , as legless beings on self moving pedestals as I had done at Salisbury but from being so constantly restricted in movement it seemed that they must be incapable of movement . |
| 9 | And then her poor face melted like a candle into nothing and how I cried at what I had done to make her lose all her features . ’ |
| 10 | It had looked suspicious , I had done right to inform them , they said kindly , but the man had nothing on his person at all , and said he had been after rabbits . |
| 11 | I had done the score for Warren for Reds and I 'd never quite finished it , so I always felt I owed him one . ’ |
| 12 | If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame . |
| 13 | He knew , in sufficiently eloquent terms , what I had done . ’ |
| 14 | Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it . |
| 15 | By the time I had done the obligatory 20-minute brushwork on Vaquero , my arms ached . |
| 16 | But it gave a warm , satisfying feeling to know I had done something right . |
| 17 | For the first time in all my life I had done right because I wanted to do right . |
| 18 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 19 | It was favourably received and I felt that I had done my hitherto neglected ancestor proud . |
| 20 | I had done much of my writing and rewriting of poems there . |
| 21 | If I had done as they said there would have been no chance of being fit enough for the expedition . |
| 22 | By three-thirty , I had done eighteen miles and was hoping to manage twenty-two . |
| 23 | It was even just possible that I should have to spend more of the war in this country than I had done in my own . |
| 24 | If I had done , then the secondary would not have occurred . |
| 25 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 26 | This was a real blow to me , as I had done well in form 5a at school and had to watch my luckier contemporaries going into the sixth form for another year with the sure prospect of getting to teacher training college , or the luckiest of them all , to university . |
| 27 | I repeated and repeated the twenty-third psalm , as I had done in so many kinds of danger before . |
| 28 | The crowd had enjoyed the race — they always appreciate it more when somebody comes through to win as I had done . |
| 29 | I was completely paralysed by the realization of what I had done . |
| 30 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |