Example sentences of "have done " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the James , we are told who did it ; in the Ackroyd , the matted fellow who is the chief suspect is never very securely identified as the author of the crimes — it is almost as if the inspector could have done it : so that Ackroyd 's is an authorially uncertain work in which the authorship of its crimes is uncertain too . |
| 2 | Ronnie could have done with one himself but he would have got arrested . ’ |
| 3 | Well , yes , I think I must have done . |
| 4 | Yesterday I could n't have done it . |
| 5 | He might have done , too . |
| 6 | ‘ Does n't matter — I could have done it , ’ said David , pointedly . |
| 7 | ‘ Your precious George ca n't have done much good if the main burst again . ’ |
| 8 | Although , at that moment I could have done with a little less myself . |
| 9 | Merrivale could have done it on his own when he was in there with her , and the gentleman who came in from outside did n't need a partner either . |
| 10 | ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I 'm sure I put it in my apron pocket , but I ca n't have done . |
| 12 | ‘ What should I have done ? ’ |
| 13 | Oh , Jay , I 'd have thought she 'd have done it by now , if she was going to . |
| 14 | presumably , as part of your preparation and selection programme , you will already have done well against others . |
| 15 | Young Angus thought , You were a coward — no you were not — what else could you have done ? |
| 16 | The results confirm that he could have done very much better , but his mind was partly elsewhere , ever active , ever engaged , ever busy . |
| 17 | ‘ I could have done with a hand . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Mind you , if you 'd said in advance I would have done gooseberry sauce . |
| 19 | And I could n't have done without the bike . |
| 20 | Raskolnikov is not with us either , but in the novel 's final text he could not have done or said any of the things I have just mentioned . |
| 21 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 22 | The overlooked hood in the newspaper scanned by the parajournalist would not have done equally well , nor would the cudgel . |
| 23 | The Japanese patenting of the Technics Class AA circuit was quite unknown to me , not having associated their advertisements for Class AA with anything I may have done until I read John Linsley Hood 's article in this journal for December 1989 . |
| 24 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 25 | I suspect that Pound never went further into Aubeterre than this inn , and one needs to have walked in his footsteps from Chalais to Aubeterre to see how he could well have done this , skirting the hill , stopping for perhaps a mid-day meal in the inn , and then pushing on at once for La Tour Blanche . |
| 26 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 27 | QPR are not good enough to finish in the top six , according to Trevor Francis , their player-manager , but they should have won and would surely have done so but for a mind-boggling miss by Andy Sinton when it was 2-2 . |
| 28 | A Labour government would start to do what the Tories should have done in the oil-rich years . |
| 29 | It was very difficult for a court to say what a reasonable mother would have done in circumstances which were almost hypothetical . |
| 30 | All this thinking and doodling will have done nothing physically to change the view outside the window , but it is a vital part of the gardening process . |