Example sentences of "do [pron] a [adj] " 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 | What would Fen say if she gave him a truthful answer , told him that Hugh had done her a good turn , jilted her before she could make the most dreadful mistake of her life ? |
| 14 | ‘ She told us to come up an' do yer a nice kindness by talkin' to yer . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | ‘ I could do you a great deal on a Navajo Scorpion . ’ |
| 18 | I 'll do you a mock up of that and see what you |
| 19 | Okay , so tomorrow erm I will do you a mock up for a , a bilingual one |
| 20 | All too often in politics we are handicapped by the fact that Mrs Jones has done something a certain way for twenty-seven years and therefore must be allowed to do it again this time . |
| 21 | In fact , she had probably done herself a great favour as , had she continued to suppress the memory , she might have caused herself great emotional problems in the future . |
| 22 | She had done him a beautiful hand-painted one the year before with ‘ Lots of love ’ on it . |
| 23 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
| 25 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 26 | All right , so you design a cup and rod device to compress a cat 's testicle and crush it , and when you 've done it a few thousand times over word gets out and you have protests and pressure . |
| 27 | Yeah because what they did they they 've done it a few a times though different people , look and see how far it is before it 's a blind spot . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was an affable sort of man who did n't look as though he would do anyone a bad turn . ’ |
| 30 | That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right |