Example sentences of "he [verb] done " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think Jimi would have still been fusing things , and when he got done finding everything that he could fuse together then he would have invented a couple more things and then fused them with everything else . |
| 2 | The main thing he got done was to defeat the General Strike . |
| 3 | Now I remember another chap , he got done with a pothole . |
| 4 | Ah he got , ah he got done for that did he ? |
| 5 | Like he got done |
| 6 | No , he got done for speeding . |
| 7 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 8 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 9 | The narrator objects that he has done nothing . |
| 10 | Nor can it be denied that he has done nothing . |
| 11 | All in all , he has done well . |
| 12 | To a roomful of shoulders raised in perplexity , he warms to his theme : ‘ Is it when he has done something once ? |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps Martin Edwards will admit that he has made a mistake selling to the person he has done and the way in which he has sold it . |
| 14 | It is not merely the fact of Saatchi selling works that has upset the dealers , but the manner in which he has done so . |
| 15 | Ever since Conran converted a struggling furniture-manufacturing business into a unique chain of retail shops called Habitat and set in motion a high-street revolution , good design has been at the core of everything he has done . |
| 16 | Laing feels strongly that the chief executive of a company should define , as he has done at United Biscuits , exactly what its responsibilities to the community are . |
| 17 | He has done more theological ‘ homework ’ here than he did for some of his own religious books , and it shows , even though learning was never more lightly worn . |
| 18 | And he has done it largely with and for local schoolchildren : ‘ The children are my ears and my eyes and my workforce . ’ |
| 19 | The committee express their thanks for the work he has done in a voluntary capacity over the past months . |
| 20 | And if Mr Mellor insists , as he has done so far , that the auction solution is not open to revision , let them ask him , kindly but firmly , if such crude competition is really the format to put on his Saturday screen the modern successors of Cantelli , Neveu and Lipatti . |
| 21 | Everything he has done has been aimed at bringing the country to dictatorship , to presidential rule as they call it . |
| 22 | As he has done for years , Jean Pierson , Airbus 's boss , replies that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas get billions of dollars of ‘ indirect ’ support from defence programmes and NASA contracts . |
| 23 | Like so many of the men now rising to leadership in poor countries , he has done a stint at the World Bank , and is regarded as capable . |
| 24 | What he has done , he explains , is to combine the belief of his philosophical predecessors that ‘ the things immediately perceived , are ideas which exist only in the mind ’ with the common-sense belief that ‘ those things … [ we ] immediately perceive are the real things ’ ; and these two , put together ‘ do in effect constitute the substance of what I advance ’ . |
| 25 | As often as not , He has done nothing of the kind . |
| 26 | It exists inside his head and he has done everything in his power to build a Dublin of the imagination that matches this vision . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There are other pains still to come , for none can hide himself in a secret place where the deeds he has done will not search him out . |
| 29 | This we may express , indeed , in a few words , but it should influence us throughout all our treatment of horses ; for a horse will more readily take the bit , if , when he has taken it , something pleasant results to himself ; and he will leap across ditches , and jump over obstacles , and comply with our wishes in all other respects , if he looks forward , when he has done what is required of him , to some indulgence . |
| 30 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |