Example sentences of "to do [pron] any " in BNC.
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1 | " If you want to do me any favours , " I said , " maybe you could get me reinstated later , when I 'm better . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Like the purr , the key message of the smile is ‘ I am NOT going to do you any harm ’ . |
5 | If your tactics are basically to run straight towards the enemy and hit him hard then a bolt thrower is n't really going to do you any good . |
6 | And if a journalist able to do you any kind of legitimate favour he or she will certainly feel that you owe him or her one in return ; this debt may be called in when you are least able to be informative . |
7 | He 'll get that in time to move out himself if he 's on the level , too late to do you any harm if he 's not . ’ |
8 | No what I 'm say what I 'm saying is that that leaving it for a few months probably is n't going to do you any harm . |
9 | I 'm not intending to do you any harm . ’ |
10 | Gone on record as saying ‘ if performances like this is n't going to do you any good , you have n't lost one match this season through the merit of the opposing side ’ |
11 | He seems completely secure in the knowledge that I 'm far too soppy to do him any harm . |
12 | Meaning that , if he had n't managed to earn respect during his lifetime , no amount afterwards was going to do him any good . |
13 | That way there 'd be nobody around to do him any harm . ’ |
14 | She went from room to room , praising the decor , and if she noticed the paintings they did n't appear to do her any obvious mischief . |
15 | Roddick merely called it ‘ self-financing ’ , because she did n't have the capital to do it any other way . |
16 | I told her I did n't want her to do it any more . |
17 | ( It will be found in Volume I of Hume 's Treatise which should be read at first hand , as we are not trying to do it any justice here . ) |
18 | ‘ And I 'm not going to do it any more . |
19 | This is how we pole a raft and just because a white man is watching through his funny machine we are n't going to do it any differently . |
20 | One , Federal Express just decided it would n't do it any more , and other other one Elan , a couple of weeks ago , or last week or whatever it was , decided it could n't afford to do it any more . |
21 | Because the cassette is read serially from start to end , it 's very difficult to do it any other way . |
22 | has been up there nattering , it 's been noticed , so Norren come up to me today and she said oh er you do n't have to do upstairs she said , give it a couple of weeks she said and you wo n't have to do it any more |
23 | What 's actually happened is , first of all Tracey 's leaving , she 's been promoted to Area Telesales Manager for Talking Pages so she 's going up to Slough and Michelle will be going for that position , and one other girl and the two others that are on management development , one is now leaving cos she 's like , burnt out , she does n't want to do it any more and the other one 's going into the field so it 's literally just me and this other girl and Michelle , but I 'm obviously just starting , but next time around it 'll just be me again Di , and Dianna is good at her work |
24 | Perhaps for this reason above any other , aromatherapy has sometimes been dismissed out of hand by a few dyed-in-the-wool traditionalists because they believe a certain amount of discomfort must be felt if it 's to do us any good ! |
25 | ‘ They asked to be on it and it 's not going to do us any harm to have Slash and Ozzy on the new album , is it ? |