Example sentences of "do [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others who have done so have argued that elderly people are often faced with a choice between an unpleasant battle to survive in their own homes and an equally unpleasant enforced dependence in the institution ( Wilkin and Hughes , 1987 ) . |
| 2 | I hope regions/countries will continue to share these reports , as those who hitherto have done so have found the practice useful . |
| 3 | Those who have done so have enjoyed the benefit . |
| 4 | As it turned out , she would have done better to have stayed on her pillow , for there she might have been found by Maud or Enid who would possibly have put two and two together at the curious sight of a cat and frog nestling on the same bed . |
| 5 | Maybe Mrs Levine would have done better to have cast her book in the form of a life of Montagu , who was of considerable interest , since , in substance , much of it is . |
| 6 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 7 | Scriabin 's First Symphony is a cyclic , tautly structured work than can well manage without being manoeuvred towards the sound world of the Poem of Ecstasy , and Segerstam would have done better to have had more of an ear for pacing and projection than is evident here . |
| 8 | I would have done better to have held my tongue . ’ |
| 9 | I suggest that , instead of choosing the mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor for his desert island disc , the Prime Minister would have done better to have chosen something from the Beggar 's Opera because there is a whole chorus on the London streets which could join in . |
| 10 | He would have done better to have let his temper cool . |
| 11 | When the tables had been cleared and those who could do so had entertained the rest with songs and recitations , the whole company settled down for a sing-song . |
| 12 | And that end you would do well to have had in mind from the very beginning . |
| 13 | yeah doing , doing the maths you see I do n't have to do another science next year |
| 14 | The er I I shall pull back slightly on that comment in that , if it 's jointly owned property it 's outside the will you therefore do n't have to prove the will to deal with that property , but if it is a large estate and you are dealing with other assets , when you do your inland revenue account you also have to refer to property you may have had the power of dealing while you were alive and that would include jointly owned property . |
| 15 | ‘ All that I have done today has gone amiss ’ , he says ( II , 17 ) ; ‘ Since we passed through the Argonath my choices have gone amiss ’ ( II , 28 ) ; ‘ And now may I make a right choice , and change the evil fate of this unhappy day ! ’ |
| 16 | Western governments including the USA and the UK had advised their nationals to leave Israel before hostilities began , and a rush of foreigners attempting to do so had provoked airport bottlenecks , compounded by airlines cancelling services because of sharp increases in insurance costs . |
| 17 | Everyone on board who was free to do so had attended the funeral , Ruth standing with the Carsons on the upper deck . |
| 18 | What he 's saying to us here is that that there is a reason that Jesus had been condemned and that those who had the authority to do so had carried out their work . |
| 19 | True , she 'd only glanced through them , had n't read them properly , because to do so had seemed like prying ; but they 'd seemed innocuous enough , just letters from a young girl . |
| 20 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 21 | At least no trace of an attempt to do so has survived among the voluminous Cossack and British sources . |
| 22 | To coordinate the efforts of people working in different parts of the country with different languages has always been a problem , whilst the failure to do so has tended to result in an unnecessary duplication of effort . |
| 23 | After Gower came Nicholas , anxious to do well having missed last year 's NatWest final because of injury , and he hit about to great effect . |
| 24 | Details of a promotion were discussed with the manager , a promotion in which he expected to do well having sold a considerable amount of Stoddard Templeton carpet . |
| 25 | You do n't have to do n't have to procure my own leads . |
| 26 | The Sejm had voted on Oct. 16 to reject most of the changes to the small constitution proposed by the Senate ( upper house ) , but in doing so had altered its rules of procedure , leading to a call for the Constitutional Tribunal to rule on the legality of the changed procedure . |
| 27 | But Salome had placed it all perfectly in context , and by doing so had made Erich an unwitting ally to the theme . |
| 28 | We had ‘ dropped the ball ’ and in doing so had lost valuable time in the search for a reliable synthetic antimalarial' . |
| 29 | There were , therefore , problems that Developments sought to solve , and in doing so had to contend with entrenched positions . |
| 30 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |