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Example sentences for "been done"

  • And now--now he might even see her alone for a couple of minutes in the hushed little drawing-room; and she might say if she had heard about what had been done in the North, and about his eagerness to return to the work.

  • Without English money what would have been done?

  • I suppose," he answered, "all the great things that have been done in the world have been founded in fanaticism.

  • I only say that such things have been done; and it's possible he may.

  • If we were to be robbed by a party of white Indians, it wouldn't be the first time the thing's been done.

  • Take me, don't I do what's been done in this here town of Hathelsborough for time immemorial?

  • You can bet your life 'at this job's been done by them whose little game Wallingford were going to checkmate!

  • Been done as he sat writing in his chair," he muttered.

  • The thing's been done in much cleverer fashion than that!

  • This has not, however, been done, and the Federal officers and courts have no power in such cases to intervene either for the protection of a foreign citizen or for the punishment of his slayers.

  • Under such conditions it was deemed advisable and proper to resume compliance with the provisions of the sinking-fund law, which for eight years has not been done because of deficiencies in the revenues.

  • This has not, however, been done, and the Federal officers and courts have no power in such cases to intervene, either for the protection of a foreign citizen or for the punishment of his slayers.

  • William Ernest Henley Things That Haven't Been Done Before, The.

  • The Widow Lady led her son with right great joy into her castle, and recounted to him all the shame that had been done her, and also how Messire Gawain had made safe the castle for a year by his good knighthood.

  • And Messire Gawain returneth back, and the damsels make great joy of him and tell him that never otherwise could the evil custom have been done away.

  • Certes," saith he, "Right well hath it been done to this evil folk that is destroyed!

  • I plain me not of the trespass for that right hath been done me.

  • The attempt to find in Lord Aberdeen's letter a subsequent pretext for what had previously been done, is evidently an afterthought, put to paper, for the first time, just six days after the treaty had been signed!

  • Whatever her condition required would have been done by Congress.

  • If he'd had a softer rope, I'd been done for.

  • Murder's been done, but I'll bet that mutton-headed Crawford ain't got brains enough to see it.

  • And I'm very glad you haven't, because a great wrong's been done her.

  • That's been done with a whip," said the Foreman Shunter, grimly.

  • That this process had already done much of its work when the old English army received its last summons, we can not doubt, though it is very possible that this work had been done sporadically.

  • And it was accorded between them that the dames should rest there some days, because of their weakness, and that they should send and let the Cid know what had been done.

  • We have not written anything concerning missionary work in the Soudan simply because nothing has been done in that vast region.

  • Leaving South Africa we will now consider briefly what has been done by the missionaries in Eastern Africa and that part of Central Africa reached by way of the east coast.

  • Among the settlers and aborigines of Fernando Po some really useful missionary work has been done at different times, which deserves a passing notice.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been done" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and that; are not; been allowed; been born; been brought; been carried; been doin; been done; been established; been here; been known; been laid; been left; been made; been married; been possible; been produced; been sitting; been thinking; been told; been wanting; been wondering; cross sections; gray squirrel; secret entrance; strong presumption