Example sentences of "[noun prp] to do [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive .
2 Wait for Lucy to do it and then we 'll read it out .
3 He , sh she ought to learn to sh she 's , they was all on about how Shrimpy ca n't stick up for himself , and then flaming Emma does exactly the same but worse cos she gets Scott to do it for her .
4 Leave Nancy to do it .
5 Well that 's we need Christopher to do it as well do n't we ?
6 One such poem is by Wordsworth , where he repeats the old legend that if anyone approaches the Isle of Man to do it harm , a mist springs up and hides the Island .
7 And I say let's get Terry Wilson to do it because you know he 's on the
8 ‘ But , damn it , I 'm paying Colin to do it ! ’
9 For some reason Jes was out there , why ca n't he get Jes to do it .
10 ‘ Why bother going all the way to Paris to do it ? ’
11 ‘ Now , the white people who own the plantations are much too lazy to do the work themselves and that is why they buy black slaves from Africa to do it for them .
12 ‘ May I present myself , Mrs. Stevenson , since I am unable to find Madame Rodet to do me the honour ? ’
13 we 'll ask Liz to do it , and give it a go and then talk through it .
14 If you are part of a family and the washing up needs doing , you do n't need a dramatic word from God to do it .
15 I did n't feel it was sensible to er , get Monica going through that too many stages , it would seem to me it would better to agree the changes and then we 'd all agreed what the changes are going to be get Monica to do it , rather than go through lots of drafts , drafts with Monica .
16 On my machine at least the re-programming does n't work for shifted keys and what you actually get is the 2 key producing the S. I have fiddled around with different forms of getting ANSI.SYS to do it but so far I have failed .
17 When it came to things he did not know how to draw , he often asked Bobby Hunt to do them .
18 Typically , he did not break the news to Arrese himself , but instructed Carrero to do it .
19 We were , I think , the first ones in Britain to do it and it was all based on trust and if we made mistakes , we made mistakes !
20 now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it
21 Get Steve to do it .
22 You do n't just say , ‘ Give me a hand in this campaign for everyone to put out their dustbins ’ You try to get the mayor to do it , or Princess Diana to do it , or a hundred-year-old lady , in the district or Rumanian orphans .
23 Because there was no Anthea to do it for him now .
24 I wondered when they offered Keagan to do it ?
25 We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on .
26 And I want it like yours but like you said I 'd have to buy erm Artex and get Chris to do it .
27 I had to get Adrian to do it .
28 Initially , Richard Burton was to direct , but he pulled out of the project and Taylor persuaded John Huston to do it .
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