Example sentences of "have done a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would have done a great deal more , Hilary , ’ he told her seriously . |
| 2 | Hatton could have done a nice little distracting job there . |
| 3 | he might have done a roast dinner and that they |
| 4 | Practising freekicks , with no ball , on no pretext other than looking as if you 'd have done a marvellous job if there had been a ball . |
| 5 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 6 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 7 | She always said she could have done a better job running the place than the Director or his boss , Controller Establishment Research and Nuclear . |
| 8 | I was n't very happy with my legal representation ; in fact , I think I could have done a better job myself . |
| 9 | Yep The Don was crap — I could have done a better job . |
| 10 | No-one can argue against or overstate what Sgt Wilko has done in this area , that 's why I believe no-one around could have done a better job , and why he is the best man for the future too . |
| 11 | They must have done a good job and not over ‘ humanised ’ her because her introduction to the chimp group was problem-free . |
| 12 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 13 | Yet , the people , who might assert this , will not have done a careful costing of royal finances . |
| 14 | ‘ Jamie would never have done a silly thing like climbing up the archway . ’ |
| 15 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 16 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 17 | I 'd have done I 'd have done a quick , a little man carrying a bag with dollars |
| 18 | Although there was never a great deal of action , at one time the firm must have done a fair trade as old Mr. Talbot was reputed to be a very wealthy man . |