Example sentences of "[verb] do [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen Leatherman , director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at the University of Maryland , has done them a favour , ranking America 's beaches for beauty , water temperature , quality of sand and the like . |
| 2 | ‘ He has done me no injury — yet . |
| 3 | Mentally it has done him a lot of damage . ’ |
| 4 | Benedict has done you no harm . |
| 5 | ‘ I think that this evening has done you a world of good , ’ he said softly . |
| 6 | This was so successful he has done it every year since , but with a different group of children . |
| 7 | Er , and the work just gets done , you do n't need to do it every day . |
| 8 | He wants me I mean he wants to do me a favour , Paul , so he might gi he might , you know I mean he say for us , I mean for us he would |
| 9 | But I do n't really want to compete in that world ; I want to do it a bit differently , something a bit more personal . |
| 10 | Timothy Gedge , with his hollow cheeks and his gawkiness , had picked on them even though he did n't know them , even though they 'd done him no harm . |
| 11 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 12 | You should n't have done that , I says shut up , I says do you a couple of days . |
| 13 | No because we would n't have got that fifteen hundred pounds they had n't agreed to do us a service . |
| 14 | Preston , I 'm going to do you a favour . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't like doing it the baby way . |
| 16 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 17 | I tend to do it the weekend before the month starts . |
| 18 | The first was to Duncan the Drunken in Barking who agreed to do me a weekend deal on a Transit in exchange for a loan of Armstrong . |
| 19 | So there will be a slight improvement on that position but erm I do feel that we have to continue to do them the costume plays we ca n't just say oh we do n't make a profit on it , we ca n't do it , I think that would be a very shortsighted erm philosophy . |
| 20 | ‘ That means I get to do it the way I think best . ’ |
| 21 | Dear Comrade Surkov , You are warmly invited to do me the honour of attending my forthcoming Inauguration in Washington DC , on 20 January 1989 , as 41st President of the United States , and to read your famous poem of international accord , ‘ Friendship ’ . |
| 22 | They like to do it a bit but they really ca n't sustain it because ultimately there 's a , there 's a call for action , a demand for action . |
| 23 | ‘ And it might have done him a bit of good . ’ |
| 24 | They will have done him no good in the housing movement , which recognises that my hon. Friend stands for a real commitment , typical of this Government , to the needs of homeless people . |
| 25 | What 's more they might have done him an injury if he had n't pulled off his cassock pretty smartish and turned back into Matt , which calmed them down . |
| 26 | McGrath said : ‘ It could have done us a lot of good to have been beaten so heavily at Coventry . |
| 27 | Yeah , well I think they could have done it a bit quicker do n't you ? |
| 28 | Well I think , I would have thought they could have done it a bit quicker , the bathroom , if they wanted to . |
| 29 | I 'd have to do it every hour . |
| 30 | But I do n't have to do it every day all day . |