Example sentences of "done [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over .
2 He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried .
3 I 'm sure I would have done if it had been here …
4 It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships .
5 Still , he would have done if it had n't slipped his mind , and surely the intention made him culpable .
6 There was an estimate of £10:1:0 for enclosing Kiels , with a gate , and they recommended that it be done if it did not exceed
7 That I 've done what I 've done because it seemed to me right , not because I wanted to spite him . ’
8 I , I 'm always reluctant to put down specific methods of writing new procedures , or who 's responsible for it , or where it 's got to be done because it depends entirely on what it 's about .
9 Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response .
10 Part of the function of an external UPS is to smooth out the incoming power , but that can only be done before it reaches the PC 's power supply .
11 It can be done before it appears on the air , either in a private room or in a theatre , to a large or small audience ; it can be done after it has appeared by personal interview or ( as frequently in the USA ) by telephone .
12 It can be done before it appears on the air , either in a private room or in a theatre , to a large or small audience ; it can be done after it has appeared by personal interview or ( as frequently in the USA ) by telephone .
13 At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta .
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