Example sentences of "can do [pers pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Wales hope Cyprus , whom they beat last month , can do them a favour by pinching points from their main rivals in the run in . |
2 | A130 neighbours Braintree can do them a favour today by beating the islanders and condemning them to relegation , while improving their own lowly position in their first season at this level . |
3 | Look at that place in Southampton , can do me a disc drive for two hundred quid or whatever it was , I do n't know why but I ca n't remember the price , but let's keep it at two hundred pound , And he phoned them up and said oh your price is very good on that one . |
4 | Otherwise , for a jingle of coin we can do you a selection of gory romances , full o fine cadence and corpses , pirated from the Italian ; and it does n't take much to make a jingle — even a single coin has music in it . |
5 | It can also be funny and it can do you a power of good . |
6 | You 're saying I can do it a lot better than that . |