Example sentences of "[was/were] do [pron] 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 | So did did they think they were doing themselves a disservice then when they , maybe when they amalgamated , or when they became part of the boilermakers , or when the boilermakers started taking in various trades to approach the employers as a as a a black squad unit for wage rises and conditions and so on , or did they they Would they have preferred to have done it themselves do you think ? |
| 3 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 4 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
| 5 | This afternoon you came to my office as if you were doing me a favour . |
| 6 | Now you were doing it a very neat way , a quick way , of doing it all in one go , were n't you ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And I felt like I remember sometimes feeling as a child when I was doing something a bit difficult , a bit daring . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mrs Goreng presented the idea like she was doing me a big favour , giving me the chance to teach the future malai President . |
| 11 | He needed to ; it was doing him a kindness , putting iron into his backbone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As it turned out , I was doing him a service . ’ |
| 14 | I was doing him a favour looking after the house over Christmas . ’ |
| 15 | and one of them was doing them a halfpenny cheaper ! |
| 16 | Well as far as I was concerned , I was doing what a doctor told me . |
| 17 | Dressed with extreme casualness himself in trainers and jeans , he ignored her outfit and she was left feeling uncomfortably in the wrong , almost as if he was doing her a favour by not commenting on her appearance . |
| 18 | Belpan was outside the EC 's sphere of influence so the Colonel was doing someone a favour . |