Example sentences of "did [pers pn] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth .
2 From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve .
3 " When you did me the honour of appointing me to the Mastership of Stockport School I was led to suppose that the Income , inclusive of Ten Pounds paid by your Worshipful Company , amounted to nearly Three Hundred Pounds per annum , and from an Enquiry , however , during my Residence here , I have had the Mortification to find that the whole Salary was not more than £25 10 10½d , so that it was impossible for me to remain in the Situation without a Prospect of Church Preferment in the Neighbourhood , which I have no reason to hope for .
4 he did me the honour of revealing his sources .
5 Nearly fifty years later Magdalen did me the signal honour of electing me an Honorary Fellow .
6 Mr Gould , who in describing this new species did me the honour of calling it after my name , states , that besides the smaller size and different colour of the plumage , the beak is of considerably less proportional dimensions than in the common Rhea ; that the tarsi are covered with differently-shaped scales , and that they are feathered six inches beneath the knee .
7 I do n't think I ever have done Heathrow , oh wait a minute , did I the first year ?
8 In other words did you the flat ?
9 They , they made a big difference did they the buses you would use ?
10 In certain cases the warlords would use this but how often , we 've already talked , how often did your landlord , they , they used er sort of agencies to collect , only but how often did they sort of er did they the militia on them ?
11 We did her the favour of pretending that she was not talking about her own lack of brains .
12 Farnham reached their second cup final of the season — and they did it the hard way when they met Cranleigh in the semi-finals of the Class Elite Cup at the Memorial Ground on Saturday .
13 Next , they brought out the wally who placed his head on the block but , being a wally , he did it the wrong way , facing upwards instead of downwards .
14 All of us did it the whole time .
15 When she did it the second time .
16 Well that 's , that 's well that 's all I can recollect in relation to why we did it the way we did .
17 Right , which is what we got when we did it the other way .
18 but you 'll see players who , I mean , I mean , did it the other day when I was playing and she did this , oh yes , she I said you 've moved it , I thoroughly accepted it was n't through , you should n't do that .
19 Once one way , cleaned it up and then did it the o opposite way .
20 Well you did it the other day but then you did n't have a teddy in your hand did you ?
21 Reliability is much to , much more to do with replicability , it 's , it 's another if another researcher went in and did it the same way , would they get the same results ?
22 just as I did it the bloody filter light came on
23 Erm before I sent , I only did it the other day , I regret to say any rate .
24 And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know .
25 And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know .
26 Oh dear oh it 's down about here when , did it the other day , and the woman just drove out straight in front of me from another lane
27 ‘ So did I. The feeling wears off . ’
28 A little later Speedbird 486B did us the flavour of relaying our intentions to Bilbao , and we were given a routing via the standard reporting points November One and November and holds while the British Airways flight landed there .
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