Example sentences of "do [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 2 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
| 3 | Alan Middleton has recently moved to Aberdeen with Christian Literature Crusade , pray that he would settle into his new role in that place and that Alan would be open to what God would do through him in the coming months . |
| 4 | How much business have you done with them over the last year ? |
| 5 | . The damage done to industry by any of these three methods would probably be more than the good done to it by the direct help and , anyway I am not clear on the sort of direct help that might be intended . ’ |
| 6 | Forgive the typed letter — bit impersonal , but I am trying to get to speedy grips with the little apple laptop powerbook 100 which I got when George was home — heaven alone knows how I would have done without it in the last few weeks . |
| 7 | West Ham are one of the favourites to go straight up , but who can tell what the pressures of promotion will do to them in the final weeks . |
| 8 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 9 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 10 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 11 | The case of DEC is tantalising : either the Alpha will do for the company what the VAX 8600 — quickly supplanted by the VAX 8650 — did for it in the 1980s , and the vast installed base of VAX machines will be replaced by Alpha AXPs , giving the company three years of fantastic growth that propel it to $25,000m , or the desperately late Alpha and the new OpenVMS will turn out to have too many bugs and glitches to be trusted , in which case , DEC will be trotting off after IBM . |