Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] do [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Guys come in with board injuries and they say , Johnny Boy did it to me . |
| 2 | As Jim Perrin almost explained in his highly perceptive and barely obscure September piece , today 's rock climber does it for extrinsic reasons , creating a gulf between that activity and the intrinsic moves of the other mountain activities . |
| 3 | By the way , you do n't have to move the needles that were in non-working position on the main bed to working position before transferring — the rib transfer carriage does it for you . |
| 4 | Christopher Columbus did it with a smaller crew than Taylor has tried so far . |
| 5 | This sort of behaviour may be cute and quirky when Tom Hanks does it in a feel-good age-swap movie , but in real life it 's pathetic , regressive , and very very sad . |
| 6 | Mr. Gordon had persuaded Sir George Phillips , who was a rather crabby old man , to let them use the Park for their meetings , but , all the same , Judy had the feeling that Mr. Gordon did it for Brown Owl and not at all for the Brownies . |
| 7 | Fortunately , Mr Leland did it for her . |
| 8 | Rawlplug fixings : Williams Holdings doing it for themselves |
| 9 | Now I did it in one method and Mr Grigson did it in er in a second method , and the ability to do that changes the number of households that it would project to the er the dwellings , and cancels out , this makes judgements erm on the actual population projections based , which are estimates that have come out , I do n't necessarily believe the best measured estimates have come out for York , and have adjusted some of the figures in accordance with that . |
| 10 | Beddington thinks Pipkin thinks , ’ concluded Angelina confusedly , ‘ that Sir Thomas did it on purpose because he disliked Pipkin . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I remember Trevor Brooking doing it for England when he was playing in the Second Division . |
| 12 | Erm , the only time it was really good in my area was when Urban District Council did it with a little chap pushing a barrow and cutting the grass and it all looked absolutely beautiful . |
| 13 | D. H. Lawrence does it in a poem called ‘ The Oxford Voice ’ . |
| 14 | Seven years ago , she had allowed a man from Christ Church to do it to her on a sofa during a Commem ball , and really she had not liked it . |
| 15 | Three legends share the quickest century but Bernard Ganley , David Watkins and Steve Quinn did it in 18 games . |
| 16 | Captain Slocum did it at the end of the nineteenth century . ’ |
| 17 | The retired menswear representative did it in style , winning by five shots with rounds of 76 and 73 and beating 149 other players . |
| 18 | It 's hard to imagine Mr Fogg , for example , ever having been a train-spotter : if there was any train-spotting to be done , Mr Fogg would have despatched his loyal French manservant Passepartout to do it on his behalf . |
| 19 | You can see how Dorothy Sayers did it by having the victim being supposed to be actively painting when in fact he was dead , and it is by using some such piece of lateral thinking , making the victim provide the alibi in this instance , that the trick is probably most easily brought off . |
| 20 | One yearned for Richards to make the romantics smile by sending in two bowlers to polish them off , reflecting that when Percy Chapman did it with fifteen needed against Australia in 1928–9 ( and lost two wickets ! ) , |