Example sentences of "done all [art] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 2 | Llewellyn sportingly admitted : ‘ I have got to feel sorry for Andy Adams — he 's done all the work . ’ |
| 3 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 4 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 5 | Besides , I 'd like you to be there — especially as you 'll have done all the work . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 've lined up a nice selection of videos — you must have first choice since you 've done all the work ! ’ |