Example sentences of "had [verb] it do " in BNC.

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1 Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep .
2 She pulled him past her , and as he went he let his hand float out casually behind him , as he had seen it done , and was overjoyed to feel her small , damp hand fall solidly into his palm .
3 Owen had seen it done during his time in Alexandria , where hysterical prostitutes were quickly restored to life and reason by an experienced old Austrian police officer of the Labban Red Light quarter .
4 Clive had said it did n't matter .
5 When Lord John Russell declared that ‘ the whisper of a faction could not prevail over the voice of a nation ’ , he was appealing to moral principle ; and if , when that appeal was made , it chimed in with political expediency it was only because factious and sometimes unprincipled Tory opposition had made it to do so .
6 Her mother had played war when she had had it done like that .
7 But in the end I had to do it did n't I ?
8 The thing is , we ordered it went back in the afternoon and it was cut and put on the side , I had to have it did n't I ?
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