Example sentences of "he had done with " in BNC.

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1 Proceeding much as he had done with his houses , Edouard first refurbished them .
2 Stephen Ross ( no relation ) , a director with 3i in Birmingham , takes up the story : ‘ We knew Alistair Ross and respected what he had done with the other poultry business .
3 He could n't remember what he had done with his bike when he got to the Fletchers ' , left it there and collected it next day perhaps , but he could remember most of the rest of it .
4 He had no idea what he had done with the diary .
5 Umpire Bird called Waqar for a second over-shoulder-high bouncer to Smith in his next over , and signalled what he had done with laudable clarity .
6 He assumed the mural was being discarded and took it to his studio , hoping to repair and perhaps eventually sell it , as he had done with other works from that period .
7 Anyone who handled the King 's money was ‘ charged ’ with the revenues he had received or collected and had to acquit himself before the Barons of the Exchequer by showing what he had done with it .
8 Shinwell had been heard to declare that " he held the seamen of the Clyde in the hollow of his hand " and that English ports were also dissatisfied with Wilson 's autocratic methods and ready to break away if he did not tell them what he had done with their money .
9 He let his head roll against the window and she could have believed he was doing something with his eyes to the countryside , the way he had done with his eyebrows to the men .
10 DeVore laughed , knowing the drug would last for hours yet — would keep him at this peak until he had done with her .
11 He continued to practise photography as a hobby until 1887 , taking an ‘ unalloyed enjoyment of the art ’ , much as he had done with his drawing and engraving .
12 In the 1920s , when von Frisch was carrying out similar experiments on honeybees to those he had done with fish , he noticed that although initially a lone bee came to his food dish , soon afterwards many bees came .
13 And when he had done with her , she could wipe him from her mind , obliterate him .
14 He had thought that he had done with her long ago , had assumed that she had lost the power to hurt him .
15 He decided to rid the army , as he had done with the party of any possible opposition .
16 As he had done with the Axis in 1940 and the Allies in 1945 , Franco considered that the foreign powers were in his debt and , therefore , that he , not they , should lay down the terms of Spanish cooperation .
17 Franco responded as he had done with Hitler , presenting a shopping list and saying that the provision of the items on it ( which ranged from aircraft to foodstuffs ) was a prerequisite for Spanish cooperation .
18 He pushed the papers from him as though he knew already he had done with them .
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