Example sentences of "have done [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some find her inconsistencies maddening , failing to understand how a right-on feminist could have done such a thing as using Mandy Smith in her show at the very height of the tabloid fuss over Smith 's under-age relationship with Bill Wyman . |
| 2 | Could you have done such a thing , Mom ? |
| 3 | Nobody believed Philip could have done such a thing as marry one of the Ryan girls for love . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , the Gruagach would never have done such a thing if it had n't been suggested to them , ’ put in Feradach . |
| 5 | How could he believe that she would have done such a thing ? |
| 6 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
| 7 | How could she have done such a thing ? |
| 8 | ( 5 ) , on the other hand , seems to call into question the existence of any conditions which could have led to someone leaving Pa unattended : the speaker can not understand how anyone could have done such a thing . |
| 9 | She drove fearlessly up a narrow dirt-track road that wound steeply between scented pine trees because she was still mad that Fernando could have done such a thing . |
| 10 | How could I have done such a thing ? |
| 11 | How could I have done such a thing ? |
| 12 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 13 | You know you 've got to get your foot in and you know if you 've got erm people in tackles , come on , they are n't any different to anybody else and maybe I thought we could have done that a little bit better . |
| 14 | To be honest , I do n't think they 'd have done that a year ago Brian . |
| 15 | He might have done this a good deal earlier if he had wanted for it was completely blank . |