Example sentences of "do [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Next time he 'd do them a bloody bunch of daffodils . |
2 | Chandos Herald , the Black Prince 's biographer , makes the prince reply to Charles V 's letter citing him to appear before the parlement of Paris by saying , ‘ Lords , by my faith it seems to me that the French think I am dead ; but if God gives me comfort , and I can get up from this bed , I will do them a great deal of harm even now , for God knows that they lack a good case , and they will have real cause to complain of me . ’ |
3 | He said : ‘ The word from Manchester United fans was that we could do them a big favour , and we 've undoubtedly done them one , but I got the impression that our own fans would not have been too bothered if we 'd lost today . ’ |
4 | Middlesbrough , with goalkeeper Ian Ironside making his first-team debut at Wolves , are hoping that local rivals Newcastle United can do them a big favour . |
5 | Let's do them the other way round let's talk first of all about the visual aids . |
6 | But thank goodness it did n't do me no permanent harm . |
7 | The hon. Gentleman would do me a great favour if he could kindly confirm that his party , if in power , would spend an extra £13 billion above what we are spending . |
8 | Can you do me a small favour ? ’ |
9 | Can you do me a little exercise first just to er write down write down what erm of what we 're trying to reveal . |
10 | ‘ Frank , could you do me a big favour and see if you can find who this guy Azul is ? ’ |
11 | ‘ And it has n't done me a whole lot of good , let me tell you ! |
12 | But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony . |
13 | FOOTBALL fans thought Lord Justice Taylor had done them a big favour when his report into the Hillsborough tragedy condemned the ill-thought ID card scheme to the dustbin of history . |
14 | And matey done them a little bit longer . |
15 | ‘ She told us to come up an' do yer a nice kindness by talkin' to yer . ’ |
16 | Sometimes they give you the feeling that they have done you a great favour by attending rehearsals and at the end of the rehearsal period it 's ‘ Bye-bye loves , now you do your thing and I 'll go off and do another ’ . |
17 | Do you know , it 's a most peculiar thing , a number of people who said , erm , one of our really made me laugh , a couple of Friday 's ago , came and said to me , typical , Christ , he 's done you a big favour has n't he ? |
18 | ‘ I could do you a great deal on a Navajo Scorpion . ’ |
19 | ‘ Ai n't gon na do you the slightest good any which way . |
20 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
21 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
22 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
23 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
24 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
25 | The Hungarians have put privatisation and foreign-trade liberalisation before currency convertibility ; the Poles have done it the other way round . |
26 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
27 | Please note that you do not have to open the rings to put these markers over , though you should after you 've done it the first time , erm , it should become easier with practice , let me put it that way , okay . |
28 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |
29 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
30 | that 's the wrong way , you 've done it the wrong way have n't you ? |