Example sentences of "have done [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What good would it have done telling Sergei I 'd found you ? |
| 2 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 3 | I 'd have done eight more and then move across . |
| 4 | The National Curriculum subjects will therefore have to be given priority for resources , especially where schools have not offered the full curriculum to all pupils , or in primary schools which may have done little science and technology . |
| 5 | A quick examination put her at ease but may have done little for her embarrassment ; the culprit was a misplaced liquorice all-sort . |
| 6 | This awkward , contrived and frankly tasteless stunt will have done little to lift the Queen 's image . |
| 7 | The couple 's apparent reconciliation will have done little to lessen Princess Diana 's anger at the knowledge that the man who once told her he loved her has fallen for a beautiful woman , 10 years younger than herself . |
| 8 | Left to themselves , the Romanians would have done little to immortalize the ‘ Epoch of Light ’ , but by devoting 30% of the national income to what was imaginatively described as ‘ investment ’ — mainly in unproductive prestige projects — Ceauşcscu was determined to transform the country into the image of his ideal and leave it irrevocably marked by his rule . |
| 9 | Liverpool are already in the grip of their worst League start to a season since 1953 — and this amazing result will have done little to restore confidence . |
| 10 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 11 | The change in status could have done little to help . |
| 12 | Like one of the marauding buccaneers who used to terrorise the Mediterranean coasts , he could have taken her there and then , and she could have done little to stop him . |
| 13 | Newcomen must have done various experiments before he erected this first commercially successful engine , but we have no record of these . |
| 14 | That 's alright that , I must have done six loads of washing , for some reason I just did n't seem to have enough to do me loads |
| 15 | WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ? |
| 16 | Well I thought what we wous what we would have done four fi four , five years ago like , I mean that would have been stopped and and and scrapped . |
| 17 | You know , I should have done four by tomorrow . |
| 18 | ‘ Your precious George ca n't have done much good if the main burst again . ’ |
| 19 | Mrs Cresson 's appointment may have helped the Socialists somewhat but can not have done much for the Communists . |
| 20 | ‘ What you did to them can not have done much to put right what their own families had already done . ’ |
| 21 | Some letters , however , suggest that Leapor was rather dilatory , and may not have done much work in the winter . |
| 22 | If you look at the history of the band , songs like I Was Made For Loving You , which had a kind of dance feel , we could have done much more of that and been successful with it . |
| 23 | Straw Dogs managed to attract enough blood seekers to put it into the black at the box-office , but this disturbing tale of rural atrocities can scarcely have done much for the Cornish tourist industry . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose I might have ended up bowling up the hill into the wind at Headingley , and that might not have done much for my prospects , but generally the policy change was inevitable , and I am glad it happened . ’ |
| 25 | The inclusion of a Tallmantz B–25 cameraship would have done much for both the dogfights and the other air-to-air formation shots . |
| 26 | Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey . |
| 27 | That he would have done much more is years to come is certain ; yet the quality and the richness of what he left behind him make it equally certain that this very patient man , who to achieve his ends knew how to take his time , never wasted a minute of his life . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't think that would have done much good , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Sprawling at his feet would not have done much for her dignity . |
| 30 | That 's amazing that you went on holiday alone because surely you would have done much |