Example sentences of "had do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Southworth who owned the hall and who was the nephew of Tace 's widow , had done up the lodge as a home for his wife 's mother but since her death it had stood empty . |
| 2 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 3 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 4 | Harriet would make excuses for this , rather as she had done over her late husband 's peccadilloes . |
| 5 | The rest would have understood the warning , and the plot , whatever its form , would have fizzled out , as so many had done over the years . |
| 6 | And Faye planned to show off the eight paintings she had done over the past four months , six of which featured Belinda and all of which were now professionally framed . |
| 7 | WORKING IN ASF Larry was seldom involved with the flying of aircraft but on one occasion he stood in as Electrical NCO , on 15 Squadron , in lieu of F/Sgt Sanders who had done into hospital . |
| 8 | She had a second helping , as she had done of the casserole . |
| 9 | She is more vivid in that , more vital , than in any of the countless , expensive portraits Alexander had done of her . |
| 10 | I did n't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker . |
| 11 | If he really disliked what the beastly troika had done to it , he could have resigned — or , perhaps more effectively , threatened to . |
| 12 | When it reported the result of the second engagement , it used a word which the Philistines in their terror had applied to what God had done to the Egyptians . |
| 13 | And peered into his face , as she had done to him as a child , searching for signs of fever . |
| 14 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 15 | This was what war had done to innocent children , not only had it starved them of food but reduced them to be scavengers . |
| 16 | Russian colonization , cities and railways cut up the great grazing lands of the nomadic peoples as violently as American settlers had done to the Amerindians in the United States . |
| 17 | In place of Aristotle 's association of time with motion and his appeal to the uniform daily revolution of the heavens as its basis , St Augustine turned , not as Plotinus had done to the concept of the ‘ world-soul ’ , but to the human mind for the ultimate source and standard of time . |
| 18 | She felt stunned , as if what he had done to her had somehow paralysed not only her limbs but her senses too , leaving her tense . |
| 19 | The links between what the medical profession had done to me in British patriarchy and the cruelties and outrages perpetuated by every patriarchy throughout the world were glaringly obvious . |
| 20 | Abul Ismail had said that she was loyal to Genoa , and it seemed this was true , whatever Carlotta had done to her . |
| 21 | In each lull between contractions memories of James tormented her , and with each new onslaught of pain she mentally tried to inflict the agony on him , cursing him for what he had done to her . |
| 22 | He knew enough psychology to have at least some insight into what those early shaming and terrifying experiences had done to her . |
| 23 | And at last she broke down and told him what Courtney had done to her . |
| 24 | They than asked what he had done to the police that they had it in for him . |
| 25 | When he had dressed himself he went back out of the kitchen door ; no doubt Ellen would latch it again once she heard him go , her vengeance at what life had done to her completed . |
| 26 | He hated the car and he hated himself in it ; he hated what it could do to him and what it had done to him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I had to play bigger points from the back of the court because I had to be more relaxed because I was worried about what I had done to myself , ’ he said . |
| 29 | In the spring of 1648 , when the Second Civil War broke out in accordance with this plan , many of the principal officers of the Parliamentary Army , furious at the King 's conduct in deceiving them and plunging the nation into an unnecessary war , solemnly undertook ‘ to call Charles Stuart , that man of blood , to an account for that blood he had shed , and mischief he had done to his utmost , against the Lord 's cause and people in these poor nations ’ . |
| 30 | England found nobody to do what the Pakistan quickies — Wasim Akram in particular — had done to them . |