Example sentences of "does [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 And then Jess said : ‘ Come in … come in , afore the weather does thee an injury ! ’ smiling at him .
2 Auditions are nerve-wracking for everyone who does them ( and for that matter , for everyone who watches them ) but being sure of your text is the least you can do .
3 Do the sponsors feel that this tawdry display does them any good ?
4 But Anne then does them at 30 degrees .
5 Walking , cycling and swimming are healthy exercise which can help keep the patient 's blood pressure down , if he does them sensibly , without putting himself under undue pressure .
6 He never does them any harm .
7 Failure to achieve this goal at the outset may result in a patient who depends on others for insulin injections , misses injections or does them with a very poor technique .
8 Some people find it does them good psychologically to use an expensive preparation but it is possible to keep the skin soft and free from unpleasant dryness without spending a fortune .
9 Even in such exalted company , Rozhdestvensky holds his own ( although Szell 's breathtaking final coda to the Marche remains a uniquely compelling experience ) , and what a joy to hear a native Russian orchestra accorded engineering which for once does them proud !
10 Madame Gloriana turned away murmuring to herself , ‘ That 's what they all want to know , although I 'm not at all sure if it does them any good . ’
11 The next chapter , ‘ Parliamentary procedure ’ is concerned with how it does them .
12 The frets here seem as soft as those on the Villain , and this would appear to be an area which the company will have to address , as it does them a disservice ; do they know how long poor quality bass frets last ?
13 Some say this is merely cartoon aggression but some susceptible kiddies could believe that it 's okay to copy such actions because they have no serious effect when Macaulay does them .
14 It does them better .
15 This kind of jiggery-pokery does them a disservice .
16 Anyone with a slightly cynical bent would have initial difficulty being convinced by the Inspirals ' contentment with their shrunken market — as someone who last saw the Inspirals dwarfed by a wealth of pyrotechnics and gargantuan lighting at Reading , your correspondent can only assert the view that their new scaled-down persona does them more than a few favours .
17 The eggs hatch in two or three days , and the larvae cling to the leaf for a similar period , unless dislodged by the aeration ( this does them no harm ) .
18 For , according to the prophets , ‘ he who by faith is righteous shall live ’ ; and the law does not rest on faith , for ‘ he who does them shall live by them ’ ( Gal. 3:12 ) .
19 And some of the connections are quite revealing , and the actions of the Italians in getting very very frustrated and angry now , and having the Christian Democrats and the Mafia and the and the establishment ruling them for many many years , I think does them proud and er maybe a little bit of anger here , about the same issues , would go down quite well .
20 No other firm does them so you ca n't say , let's try this firm 's patches , cos they do n't do them .
21 To feed them on food which does them no good at all even though they like the taste would be irresponsible on waters where carp baits are the major part of the fish 's diet .
22 Many would claim he does them rather well , by riding his motor bike with the style of a bronco rider all in the pursuit of the ‘ Scottish Trial Championship ’ .
23 These incredibly difficult organisational changes look easy when IBM does them .
24 yeah I 've got a lot of relations , I 've got twenty , twenty seven er grandchildren , that includes the great grandchildren , twenty seven which I have er to get something for all at Christmas it 's a pantomime I 've got stuff here and everywhere sorting out for them , cos my little grandson tonight is coming round to wrap them up for me so I got to mind I have n't , leave his present in the way otherwise he 'll know what he 's got yeah he 's got , I got a tape for him , he wanted a tape called Madness so I 've got him a tape for it so I 've had to put that out the way so he does n't wrap that up , no he comes and does them up for me tonight , and a friend Ian will help him as well , so you know it 's , it 's great really
25 Steve Astington says he was a rock climber and then moved over to marathons … this is his thirteenth … you have to put a lot of training in … he does them for the enjoyment it takes him away from life and all the stresses
26 Instead , they are likely to suggest that some methods of discipline can be used to help prevent a young person absconding from care so long as this does them no harm .
27 And really , the cleanliness of the streets here does them credit — not a piece of paper or a cigarette packet ( scarcely , in fact , a cigarette end ) to be seen in the tree-lined thoroughfares on Nanking .
28 Oh we had much more discipline when we were young than they have nowadays and I do n't think it does them any harm .
29 Hughey does them , I do n't know .
30 She sits there and does them twice as fast as me .
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