Example sentences of "'ve do [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you get it right , the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds , and all you 've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout , and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly … |
| 2 | ‘ All you 've done is make us look suspicious . ’ |
| 3 | All you 've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one . |
| 4 | All we 've done is to make it look nice inside with our furniture , our pictures and our paintings and so on . ’ |
| 5 | Anyway , thus far all they 've done is sampled the boom boom . |
| 6 | ‘ He appreciates what others in the team are doing for him , because what I 've done is pick a team around him , ’ explained Taylor . |
| 7 | Well on the attainment targets for English they , what they 've done is they put the spelling and punctuation underneath presentation |
| 8 | Now this year what I 've done is actually going to see the form teacher and look at the classes and they 've actually given me a lot more information this year and hopefully , keep our fingers crossed , the classes are very varied and we have good , we have middling , and we have the not so good and we 've tried to keep those like that . |
| 9 | So technology has advanced considerably , and what we 've done is to capitalise on the younger engineers and we 've introduced another phase called neighbourhood engineers and this is where we rely on the er goodwill of the firms to actually sa let their seconder engineers sometimes , but certainly let them out into the er into the schools careers convention work places to talk to the actual youngster itself . |
| 10 | We know very precisely the age at the top of the coral when it was uplifted and died and what we 've done is counted these bands back through hundreds of years , back to the time when the coral first started growing and that was in the year fifteen eighty three . |
| 11 | Ail they 've done is sign his death warrant for him . ‘ |
| 12 | I think the most important thing that we 've done is talk about it . |
| 13 | And what they 've done is they 've asked various volunteers , mugs , call them what you will , to be er recorded while they are carrying their out their normal duties . |
| 14 | What I , w w what we 've done is we 've assured them that we will provide the level of service that they 've had previously and if need be |
| 15 | But what they 've done is , they 've actually dis distorted the rules on P E Ps as time 's gone along and the Chancellor 's allowed them to do it , and the distortions are getting more and more elaborate , and er I think they keep knocking on the revenue door and saying er we , we 've designed this one , is this okay ? |
| 16 | No I 've I 've just All I 've done is because Erm because that is a function of that |
| 17 | ‘ Since I met Dorian Gray , the work that I 've done is good , the best work of my life . |
| 18 | So you 've done is rewritten your equation , |
| 19 | Erm , what I 've done is I 've asked for quotes from three companies er to see how much work , how much it 'll cost us to take this action . |
| 20 | All I 've done is guide you . ’ |
| 21 | Erm , what I 've done is , I 've put a label in the cell . |
| 22 | All I 've done is offend one or two of the wrong people , it 's not the end of the world . |
| 23 | The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference . |
| 24 | Erm and er that it 's maybe very important at a time like this when children are potentially going and and knocking on stranger 's doors to be particularly careful so what we 've done is is is put together a simple guide for parents and carers erm which suggests that er they should n't just let their children go off for the evening . |
| 25 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 26 | As you can see , so far six hundred organizations have registered with us and what we 've done is put them in a rather , rather flash booklet and the idea is that youngsters , their parents , teachers , youth leaders , scout leaders , anybody , gets hold of one of these booklets and in it , it tells them how to go sailing . |
| 27 | What I 've done is just taken over from Catherine last year on her topics which er , seem to quite successful and I certainly know that Marian did them last year and found them good . |
| 28 | What you 've done is qualified appointments by telephone . |
| 29 | What we 've done is we 've taken out of the table what is unlikely to happen , no not unlikely , er I 'll rephrase that , what is agreed will not come forward in in the structure plan period , the roll forward |
| 30 | You see , whereas B types would say , no , I can see that what you 've done is acceptable and that 's alright . |