Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] had done " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 2 | But it gave a warm , satisfying feeling to know I had done something right . |
| 3 | Fortunately it was a price she could afford , and she had made the arrangements , coming back to her room to eat the best meal and sleep the best sleep she had done for quite a while . |
| 4 | She did n't know you had done the calving . |
| 5 | When she heard the grumbles of the county landowners after the announcement , she may have wished she had done . |
| 6 | We found we had done the right thing : Mr Murray was partial to a wee whiskey . |
| 7 | The men who stopped her had done a lot of talking on their radio before taking her to their police station . |
| 8 | Sarah was now his wife , and he had only to look at her to know he had done the right thing . |
| 9 | I located a couple of book reviews I had done on matters to do with the period , one about writers of the thirties , the other about the Mass Observation project , added a letter in which I wrote a little about the book I was writing and sent them off . |
| 10 | At last , Swan must have decided they had done enough teasing . |
| 11 | You will meet those who spent two , maybe three days there and left believing they had done it all . |
| 12 | The Kensington exchange had reacted fast , and the inquiry would show they had done their best . |
| 13 | He was a bully , he flew into rages , but to do what Albert believed he had done he would have to be wicked , and Carrie did n't think he was that . |
| 14 | Even now she felt sorry for him , unable to fix at the front of her mind the full extent of what she believed he had done . |
| 15 | What it had done it had done , immaculately , consummately , flawlessly , without unseemly protest or undue noise . |
| 16 | Mr Clarke said he assumed it had done a U-turn across the central reservation . |
| 17 | I could n't believe I had done it ; I had reached the point in a trainee pilot 's training when he feels that he can now really get some flying under his belt and his flying really starts . |
| 18 | It did cross my mind that she might actually get across the damn thing and hit land before the wind dropped , but I reckoned that even if that happened I had done my best , and honour was satisfied . |
| 19 | Stated I had done report to justify it and had the expenditure approved — not my fault . |
| 20 | A journalist would rarely turn you in whatever you claimed you had done . |
| 21 | But by the time the rest of the staff arrived she had done no work , had just sat staring blankly into space . |
| 22 | The tigress had seen me , or she would not have crossed the pool and hurried for shelter , as her tracks showed she had done . |
| 23 | As I sipped the remainder of my beer I reflected on the years that had past , the paddling trips we had done together and all the good times . |
| 24 | He may have felt nervous about having plundered Calcutta or he may have thought he had done enough to show who was master in Bengal , but in any case he withdrew and paid the Company some compensation for its losses . |
| 25 | There were a thousand uses for Herrick 's implants , but most would be used as they had on Haavikko — to make a man vulnerable by making him believe he had done something when he had n't . |
| 26 | Trafalgar resisted restating the accounts since it did not believe it had done anything wrong . |
| 27 | He wanted badly to creep into her arms and be told he had done marvellously well , that she had put on her red dress and her new pumps specially for him , for his seduction . |
| 28 | He reckoned he had done her a service , smashing her dog . |
| 29 | He reckoned he had done well to get away with two cups of tea and forty minutes of reminiscence before an opening arose to thrust in a question . |
| 30 | He picked up an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival , assembled a band behind him and played loud enough to raise the roofbeams — just like he had done in his high-school days . |