Example sentences of "[vb past] done a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 2 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
| 3 | Once you 'd done a new paragraph like they did like this blah blah blah in here . |
| 4 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 5 | I 'd done a round but and really this time it 's not going away you know ? |
| 6 | I think he 'd done a few Compact 's up to then , but he was marvellous . |
| 7 | He said he 'd done a wonderful job in very difficult circumstances . |
| 8 | In fact it was papier-mache on which someone had done a skilful paint job . |
| 9 | Barton assured him warmly that Angela had done a great job and he was now confident of getting planning permission on the vast site he had wanted . |
| 10 | He and April , Maggie 's mum , had done a great deal of their courting in the back seats of the stalls . |
| 11 | not because he was Mansfield , but because he was a man of their own party and had done a great deal of work in connection with municipal , industrial and trade union affairs generally … |
| 12 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |
| 13 | After a career in the British army , during which time he had done a great deal of fieldwork and excavation , and had amassed a collection of artefacts from all over the world , he spent the rest of his life studying and excavating archaeological sites on his estate . |
| 14 | One student teacher , carrying out a project on food , had done a great deal of oral history work and used pictorial sources . |
| 15 | She had done a great deal of hiking in her university years , and using whatever cover nature provided had been the order of the day . |
| 16 | She had done a three-month cookery course and , as a last-ditch attempt to acquire some proper qualifications , she had enrolled as a student teacher with Betty Vacani , in Knightsbridge , who ran dancing classes for tiny tots . |
| 17 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 18 | ‘ Cheers , ’ said Bunny , pocketing the mat as he had done a million others , though the phone numbers on them were not usually trombonists . |
| 19 | Anne , the Pixie Second , often ran errands for her , and at one time or another most of the Brownies in the Pack had done a good turn for the little old lady . |
| 20 | A midwife with 25 years experience , she thought she had done a good job — then she discovered the truth . |
| 21 | The Civil Affairs Service had done a good job in my estimation . |
| 22 | That publisher had done a good job , but I did n't feel that it would really be geared to the sort of mass market that I wanted to reach . |
| 23 | He thought he had done a good job . |
| 24 | Simon the tiler had done a good job . |
| 25 | They had done a good job at that garage . |
| 26 | ‘ We felt Terry Chaplin had done a good job over two years and that the continuity was reflected in your activities , ’ she said . |
| 27 | She had done a good deal more than that . |
| 28 | The growth of western power and activity in Asia had done a good deal to extend the geographical scope of European-type diplomacy . |
| 29 | He had done a good enough job of getting her to do that already , and she 'd be damned if she was going to give him the satisfaction of letting it happen again . |
| 30 | Coun Jones said the team had done a good job for the whole community . |