Example sentences of "done over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 2 | It is clear that a great deal of ley hunting done over the past 50 years has been hunting chance alignments . |
| 3 | For instance , if people have n't exhibited management ability in what they think are the worthwhile things they 've done over the past 30 years or so , the chance of them ever being good managers is remote . |
| 4 | ‘ What we have done over the past two years is to improve on our ability to retain the ball in contact , to drive very successfully as units ( as the All Blacks found to their cost in Lille ) and to deep those drives going . |
| 5 | And Faye planned to show off the eight paintings she had done over the past four months , six of which featured Belinda and all of which were now professionally framed . |
| 6 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 7 | We we saw him come on against Birmingham about a month or so ago and save that penalty and it 's ironic that that 's how Nigel Spinks started at at Villa was n't it when he came on for Jimmy Rimmer and if Bosnich does the same job as what Nigel 's done over the past ten years then no one 's going to argue . |
| 8 | Erm , on entertainment , we 're spending a lot of money on organic growth and have done over the past two or three years and er , it 's very well spent but again , we 're growing our businesses , erm , er , rather than acquiring them . |
| 9 | He had agreed to the live radio interview readily enough , probably expecting it to run the course of a dozen or so others he 'd done over the past couple of years . |
| 10 | There is much to be done over the next few months to achieve implementation in 1994/5 . |
| 11 | ‘ Some serious talking will need to be done over the next few weeks . |
| 12 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 13 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 14 | The truth is that for a weekly paper in something as effervescent and ethereal as pop , all that we 've done over the last 40 years is not as important as what we do next week . |
| 15 | So we get to the anniversary of the policy , not the claim , the policy , I just coincide my illness with an anniversary , but on the anniversary of the policy , we 'll look at the policy , where inflation , what 's it done over the last twelve months , let's say it 's gone up by five per cent . |
| 16 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 17 | And , I mean , reluctantly we have to accept that this is not an ideal world , but I mean , just now , we were actually looking at the number of food hygiene inspections that have been done over the last few months , which have increased enormously , it just means , I mean it emphasises the fact that food has changed , food , and the number of places that are actually serving food now I mean , the corner shop does sandwiches . |
| 18 | At the first meeting in the department I did what every other Transport Minister appears to have done over the previous ten years : I hired Professor Sir Alec Cairncross to advise me . |