Example sentences of "do [pers pn] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Can you do me a small favour ? ’ |
| 7 | Can you do me a little exercise first just to er write down write down what erm of what we 're trying to reveal . |
| 8 | ‘ Frank , could you do me a big favour and see if you can find who this guy Azul is ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And it has n't done me a whole lot of good , let me tell you ! |
| 10 | But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And matey done them a little bit longer . |
| 13 | ‘ She told us to come up an' do yer a nice kindness by talkin' to yer . ’ |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | ‘ I could do you a great deal on a Navajo Scorpion . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
| 18 | Let's see if we can do it a different way . |
| 19 | If we get first division people I 'll do it a different way to him if I had to end up with second division people and the responsibilities they take on board will very much reflect that and the same surely should happen to the field sales force erm their abilities are reflected in in what sort of activities we give them and by looking at the people we have we then put together a team to most accurately attack whatever we want to do . |
| 20 | Could you do us a real favour ? |
| 21 | ‘ For , by God , they do n't know it , but they could n't do us a better service . |
| 22 | The result did our boys a certain amount of good , but now — following our own bizarre 3–3 draw in Poznam — we will have to venture abroad in the fervent hope that Poland can do us a Big Favour . |
| 23 | He thought I might know something and he wanted to do me a good turn . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And if you want to do me a real favour , stop saying yes , for Christ 's sake . ’ |
| 25 | No one from your past comes to mind who might want to do you a good turn ? ’ |
| 26 | Friendly , but then we are about to do him a big favour . |
| 27 | He got up , lifted her and carried her back to the bedroom despite her threats to do him a fatal injury if he did n't stop carting her about like a sack of old cabbages . |
| 28 | But just before he could get the words out , she begged him to do her a tremendous favour . |
| 29 | He decided to do her a pastel sketch of himself having sex with Viola . |
| 30 | The director wants you to do it a certain way , and either you do n't feel that he 's right or you feel that he 's right but he 's forcing you to be a square peg in a round hole . |