Example sentences of "to do [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've hardly got any in cos when I left my nursery I got them all to do me one and when I left my school I got a load of them to do me one I did n't get many at the day nursery , but I got a handful . |
2 | ‘ Was it worth so great a violation to do me such a little hurt ? ’ |
3 | Or ignoring the fact that the sender of that poison pen letter might try to do me some very real harm ? ’ |
4 | Would you like to do me some do something for me ? |
5 | " If you want to do me any favours , " I said , " maybe you could get me reinstated later , when I 'm better . |
6 | Nevertheless , it is important to do them first . |
7 | The problem is made worse because consumers are rarely told of the risks associated with drugs : most , not unreasonably , expect their medicine to do them good . |
8 | Scramblers probably make up the majority of Munro-baggers , since to do them all you ca n't avoid scrambling , and will also be obliged to dangle once on the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye . |
9 | There are many cases where varying documents are required and it is likely that no one single product will be able to do them all . |
10 | Oh yes , you had to do them all : you got to have your hosses like that . |
11 | Some of these are always difficult — even for adults — but by seven , she should be able to do them all without any help from you . |
12 | I should say that I , I came away from the last meeting with an enormous list of things to do , and I have n't managed to do them all , but they 'll emerge as we go through , erm , developments Perth , Perth if inter interrupt me |
13 | you 'll have to do them all you 'll have to undo |
14 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
15 | Went shopping or whatever , as I say , it , it , it , a couple of days or whatever you feel , if you , if you , if you want to get into it you might find you want to do them all |
16 | And she used to do them all , I mean , machine hemmings and and finish them off as she calls them , you know , so Con , oh yes she could of . |
17 | They 're really quite heavily bogged down , and they were to do them all , er one day at school . |
18 | I imagine so , is she due to do them next year ? |
19 | This extract is made up of two consecutive speeches to Jessica ; either speech can be played for an audition , but if you have the time to do them both together the extract works well . |
20 | Now you 're always making a balance in developing drugs and I have nothing to do with the drug industry , I 'm a G P , you have a balance between trying to move things forward to get people better and on the other hand making sure that you 're not going to do them any great harm . |
21 | but , but you know , the peasants rise up in peasant associations and decide that these things are bad , erm and they 've got , you know they do n't want to do them any more . |
22 | Now it 's too late to do them this morning cos the van 's already gone . |
23 | If it looks rather large , we encourage you to do them large . |
24 | What is becoming increasingly clear is that the Labour party is trying to do nothing other than promote scare stories so as deliberately to frighten people who have traditionally relied on adult education courses . |
25 | In the cold light of day Celtic 's win will have been seen to do nothing other than reduce the gap between them and Rangers in the Premier Division from 12 to ten points , which is hardly the signal for predicting immediate transformation within the club bereft of a trophy since 1989 . |
26 | Some aspects of Kuhn 's writings might give the impression that his account of the nature of science is a purely descriptive one , that is , that he aims to do nothing more than to describe scientific theories or paradigms and the activity of scientists . |
27 | I 'm going to do my good deed for the day . |
28 | I would just love to get a job and then go on to do my advanced driving test . ’ |
29 | I had no prospects , so I decided to do my thirty . |
30 | By the time I came to do my first talk , her feathers were a lovely tawny colour with large patches flecked with grey and smaller specks of black and white . |