Example sentences of "[vb infin] done [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 2 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 3 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 5 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |