Example sentences of "have done a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't know what possessed me to do so but I started twitching the squid like I would have done a deadbait piking when suddenly the rod thumped over !
2 I knew so many rotters before him , I could have done a degree in them .
3 Oh I could n't have done a quarter of it .
4 Oh , I could n't have done a quarter of it .
5 ‘ Huh ! ’ he grunted , and , she swiftly realised , must have done a lightning analysis of what she had said , because in his next breath he was commenting aggressively , ‘ So you 've definitely decided to throw Travis over ? ’
6 ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’
7 We scored an away goal and then two at home , and I feel perhaps we should have done a bit better . ’
8 ‘ We scored an away goal and two at home and I feel we should have done a bit better .
9 Or , possibly , she would have done a bit of both .
10 She should have done a bit more than that actually .
11 that you could have done a bit more last year
12 She handed this creature to Roland , who took it as he might have done a kitten , cradling it in the crook of his elbow , and adding to it , in turn , the nightcapped one , in tiny white pleats and broderie anglaise , and the dark-headed one , severe in dark peacock .
13 How many of these locks do you think you 'd have done a day of the cylinder lock ?
14 I would have done a car with somebody holding it
15 Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims .
16 He 'd have done a par about the lead in his pencil if you 'd asked him — a stick and a half — a column — whatever you needed ; and all of it full of wit and erudition . ’
17 We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’
18 ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more .
19 In fact er they should have done a lot better , but a lot of Conservative voters did n't bother going out to vote cos it was a foregone conclusion .
20 If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school .
21 He would have done a lot better with Speich , but the burly , moustached German did n't look very sentimental .
22 As Merrill looked at him questioningly , he went on , ‘ Knowing , by then , just how you felt about the circumstances of Elise 's death , you could have done a lot of damage . ’
23 But I think if er if he 'd have had a firm 's input , that wanted something designing , he 'd he 'd have done a lot better .
24 If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years .
25 Erm but I do n't think we , if we 'd have done a lot more work you know , it 'd have been any better .
26 Without Shirley , he probably would n't have done a ton of marathons and collected his first medal from the Hundred Club .
27 ‘ You must have done a thing or two working in that club , ’ Hitch said , still looking at her .
28 Even I would n't have done a thing like that ! ’
29 To qualify for a course at the ICO officers must have done a minimum of ten years ' service .
30 As one officer said to Levi : ‘ If we nicked everybody we thought might have done a long-firm , we 'd never finish our paperwork , the cases might never come to court , and if they did , they 'd never have the room to try them . ’
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