Example sentences of "[verb] do [pers pn] a [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 | Mentally it has done him a lot of damage . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I think that this evening has done you a world of good , ’ he said softly . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You should n't have done that , I says shut up , I says do you a couple of days . |
| 7 | No because we would n't have got that fifteen hundred pounds they had n't agreed to do us a service . |
| 8 | Preston , I 'm going to do you a favour . ’ |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ And it might have done him a bit of good . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | McGrath said : ‘ It could have done us a lot of good to have been beaten so heavily at Coventry . |
| 15 | Yeah , well I think they could have done it a bit quicker do n't you ? |
| 16 | Well I think , I would have thought they could have done it a bit quicker , the bathroom , if they wanted to . |
| 17 | I got in touch with the Cathedral choir and was invited to sing with them , though they actually had plenty of quite good tenors and were I think doing me a favour rather than the reverse . |
| 18 | So you 've done me a favour , you see . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've done me a favour really . |
| 20 | ’ Never mind , Mr. K. You 've done me a power of good . |
| 21 | And you 've done them a bit all green have n't you , why do n't you do some of erm |
| 22 | It might be a bit awkward when you start off but once you 've done it a bit it gets easier . |
| 23 | Well , we 've done it a couple of times before . |
| 24 | It did n't take much to get him back into proper work ; the pleasant surprise was that the three weeks holiday had done him a lot of good . |
| 25 | In a way , without knowing it of course , the Old Man had done me a favour . |
| 26 | In a way , I was thinking , Gharr had done me a favour . |
| 27 | They thought it was best to know what you were up against , but Preston was n't sure it had done them a lot of good in the long run . |
| 28 | I never thought I 'd say that a sneak thief had done us a favour . |
| 29 | Increasing excise duties on alcohol and tobacco have traditionally allowed Chancellors of the Exchequer to raise revenues with a matronly wag of the finger that suggests they are trying to do us a favour . |
| 30 | You have done me a favour , I told you so . ’ |