Example sentences of "[was/were] doing [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE campaigners who took their seasonal message to the banks yesterday were doing them a favour . |
| 2 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 3 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
| 4 | This afternoon you came to my office as if you were doing me a favour . |
| 5 | Now you were doing it a very neat way , a quick way , of doing it all in one go , were n't you ? |
| 6 | It 's funny how er th trends change , but that was a was quite a common occurrence was that , men feeling ashamed of what they 'd got but trying er er in terms of these magazines giving them as if they were doing you a favour . |
| 7 | It was almost as if he was doing me a favour by not sentencing me for more , even though it was only one specimen charge of supplying . |
| 8 | Mrs Goreng presented the idea like she was doing me a big favour , giving me the chance to teach the future malai President . |
| 9 | He needed to ; it was doing him a kindness , putting iron into his backbone . |
| 10 | Of course , in thinking like this , I was doing him a great injustice : the change was not so much in him , as in the way I saw him . |
| 11 | As it turned out , I was doing him a service . ’ |
| 12 | I was doing him a favour looking after the house over Christmas . ’ |
| 13 | and one of them was doing them a halfpenny cheaper ! |