Example sentences of "do [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're gon na do shit to me I know . |
| 2 | At ‘ The Caithness and Sutherland Industrial and Art Exhibition ’ to give it its full title , a labourer was charged with having done damage to the extent of £8 by falling upon a glass case and breaking a valuable jug the property of one John Fitsgibbon , china merchant . |
| 3 | Brownie Owl continued : ‘ I think Farmer Bolsover is mostly afraid that we might do damage to his crops by not keeping to the paths , or taking a fancy to the fruit in his orchard . ’ |
| 4 | He should neither do damage to Mr. Jones , nor be slow in warning him of any impending danger ; fornication , marriage , gambling and the haunting of taverns or playhouses was strictly proscribed , and generally a monastic restraint was to be observed in all things . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman is in no position to talk about opt-outs , considering that his party has opted out of every necessary decision to assist this country in the past 10 years and has backed every inflationary wage claim , every piece of trade union militancy and every policy that would do damage to Britain and its future . |
| 6 | For Cadfael was certain that Tutilo had never done violence to any man , and must not be marked with that obloquy for life . |
| 7 | And Panofsky added : ‘ Should someone decide , for the sake of convenience , to designate the sum total of such characteristics as ‘ cathood ’ and ‘ doghood ’ , it would do violence to the English language , but not to method ’ . |
| 8 | One might guess that a substantive discussion of this issue would centre on the question of linguistic performance : Danto ( 1960 ) suggested that we will do violence to the English language if machines achieve certain linguistic performances but we still refuse to deem them conscious . |
| 9 | And he besought his mother that she would love her even as she loved him himself , and that she would do good to her and show her great honour , for which he should ever serve her with the better good will . |
| 10 | This premier league 's gon na do harm to the other |
| 11 | Do you think , in fact , Michael , that , that parents actually can do harm to their children by insisting on being involved in their teaching at too early a stage , for example by forcing their children to read ? |
| 12 | He goes on to make the point that the Scots possessed advanced tastes and understanding in literature , with a Latin poetry that ‘ would have done honour to any nation ’ , but then ponders aloud — no wonder he offended them so — why ‘ men thus ingenious and inquisitive were content to live in total ignorance of the trades by which human wants are supplied , and to supply them by the grossest means . |
| 13 | And , and what actually do you do day to day ? |
| 14 | His international reputation would do credit to Soviet music ; state support would enable him to compose without having to earn his living on the concert platform . |
| 15 | Although the costume designer James Hendy has dressed the cast in disturbingly bright colours and given Katisha fingernails which would do credit to the monstrous Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street , a spokesman said The Mikado had been produced in the spirit of compromise . |
| 16 | He is one of the most exciting one-day players in the world , with footwork which would do credit to Victor Sylvester . |
| 17 | Their publications would do credit to any university : Libertarian Conflicts in Social Choice , by UBS Phillips & Drew 's John Wriglesworth , The Role of Crack Resistance Parameters in Polymer Wear , by Williams de Broe 's Mustapha Omar and Stellar Winds ( which might conceivably be a volume of poetry ) by Robert Fleming 's Martin Murch are just a few of the titles that leap off the page . |
| 18 | Allow me to say , sir , that if you make Mistress Andrews your lady she will do credit to your choice . |
| 19 | I see you will shortly do credit to my friend Belville as he has done you credit . |
| 20 | ‘ did especially appoint John de Metingham ( then Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas ) and the rest of his fellow justices … that they , according to their discretions , should provide and ordain , from every county , certain attorneys and lawyers , of the best and most apt for their learning and skill , who might do service to his court and people ; and that those so chosen only and no other , should follow his court and transact the affairs therein ; the said King and his council then deeming the number of seven score to be sufficient for that employment ; but it was left to the discretion of the said justices , to add to that number , or diminish , as they should see fit : ’ |
| 21 | The draw ceremony was conducted seductively by Sophia Loren , operatically by Pavarotti , efficiently by Joseph Blatter , the Fifa general-secretary , and set against a background of studied chaos which would have done credit to a film by Fellini . |
| 22 | ‘ Hearing about Clydebank on the radio , ’ replied Fireman Bill , blowing out a cloud of smoke that would have done credit to the Queen Mary . |
| 23 | The Westons ' brief life stories would have done credit to the swashbuckling imagination of a Stevenson , Scott or Dumas . |
| 24 | The drive would have done credit to a New York Yellow cab , and in no time at all I was being dumped at my hotel — on the blind side but within reach of my room and some assistance . |
| 25 | He said in a grave tone that would have done credit to the S.M.O. , ‘ So she is still having to stay in her bedroom ? |
| 26 | The Sunday Citizen explained his enthusiasm for the Profumo affair because of a long-cherished personal grudge against Profumo and of having unearthed a juicy scandal by snooping that would have done credit to a divorce detective . |
| 27 | Janice said suddenly , throwing herself at me and enveloping my upper torso in a hug that would have done credit to a grizzly . |
| 28 | And he added , in a voice that would have done credit to an elder of the Wee Frees , ‘ If he is yer brother , then ye 've been committin' incest . |
| 29 | Lindsey found herself gazing at a fully equipped unit that would have done credit to any major hospital . |
| 30 | Women who have done things to children get a bad time inside if the other women know and can get hold of them . |