Example sentences of "have done [art] " in BNC.

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1 Waddle may give them this on the left , but it would surely have done no harm to start the match with Dorigo 's dash instead of the perennial , peripheral Pearce .
2 There was a time when Charles was coasting at school and if I had been working , I would have told him to buckle down — which would have done no good at all .
3 The summary of the Webbs ' view is that , by contrast with their model of Socialism , Owen 's scheme — if it could have been carried out — would have done no more than redistribute the capital of the country without altering or superseding the capitalist system in the least .
4 He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes .
5 Hatton could have done a nice little distracting job there .
6 We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’
7 Without Shirley , he probably would n't have done a ton of marathons and collected his first medal from the Hundred Club .
8 She handed this creature to Roland , who took it as he might have done a kitten , cradling it in the crook of his elbow , and adding to it , in turn , the nightcapped one , in tiny white pleats and broderie anglaise , and the dark-headed one , severe in dark peacock .
9 I knew so many rotters before him , I could have done a degree in them .
10 Practising freekicks , with no ball , on no pretext other than looking as if you 'd have done a marvellous job if there had been a ball .
11 As one officer said to Levi : ‘ If we nicked everybody we thought might have done a long-firm , we 'd never finish our paperwork , the cases might never come to court , and if they did , they 'd never have the room to try them . ’
12 Although there was never a great deal of action , at one time the firm must have done a fair trade as old Mr. Talbot was reputed to be a very wealthy man .
13 They must have done a good job and not over ‘ humanised ’ her because her introduction to the chimp group was problem-free .
14 You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood .
15 ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more .
16 Hank must have done a robbery to have so much money — he must have — there had been one or two bad ones recently — a Chinese grocer had been shot to death , in one instance .
17 ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’
18 We scored an away goal and then two at home , and I feel perhaps we should have done a bit better . ’
19 ‘ We scored an away goal and two at home and I feel we should have done a bit better .
20 Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims .
21 She always said she could have done a better job running the place than the Director or his boss , Controller Establishment Research and Nuclear .
22 In fact er they should have done a lot better , but a lot of Conservative voters did n't bother going out to vote cos it was a foregone conclusion .
23 If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school .
24 Yet , the people , who might assert this , will not have done a careful costing of royal finances .
25 I was n't very happy with my legal representation ; in fact , I think I could have done a better job myself .
26 If the Diamond Phoenix had been supplied with proper drivers it most probably would have done a little better , overtaking the Western Systems .
27 Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education .
28 ‘ You must have done a thing or two working in that club , ’ Hitch said , still looking at her .
29 He 'd have done a par about the lead in his pencil if you 'd asked him — a stick and a half — a column — whatever you needed ; and all of it full of wit and erudition . ’
30 Or , possibly , she would have done a bit of both .
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