Example sentences of "do [vb infin] [pers pn] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Geoff did buy me some sherry glasses he says oh , you give me two |
| 2 | This is Local Government Information unit , which is funded from all of the Local Authority Associations , and they have taken an interest in the passing of the environmental bills and they ran , we do give them some help , which we did . |
| 3 | The shock of it surprised the dog , when then bit the farmer ( modestly forbids me to mention where , but do give it some thought ) . |
| 4 | In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) . |
| 5 | Er Stuart , Stuart did phone me some months ago on this issue , to say he was having increasing difficulty getting to the meetings , and he asked me if er I would take it on , and I said , I would if , you know , if he were pushed . |
| 6 | She did tell me some things in her letters , but not enough . |
| 7 | We did offer him some ice cream but he said no thank you . |
| 8 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 9 | I would , I would hope that as erm , as a committee we can support all these objectives , er , it does give me some cause for concern , that our own government is objecting to these provisions . |
| 10 | I sha n't be telling you all about these men , but it does give you some idea , the way we were , the chorus , the bit players in this romance which is what I really want to tell you about . |
| 11 | erm I 've arranged for an independent assessor to view this vehicle , and the view of that independent assessor is this is a straightforward claim against the insurance company , and I at the moment am pursuing that , so it 's a little bit of a conflict of interest that one , but that does give you some background on that particular case . |
| 12 | However , just the fact that you are able to insist on interest does give you some leverage when asking for your account to be paid . |
| 13 | Maybe time does give it some perspective , he agrees , but he is determined to take the blame for the controversy it provoked . |
| 14 | The whole idea of judging by one hundred days was resurrected in the Kennedy time and people applied that to Wilson and to Heath and to Margaret Thatcher , and maybe it 's just a media hype , but I think it does give us some view and I think we need more of a view on this man , because a lot of people are saying will the real John Major please stand up . |