Example sentences of "do [pers pn] 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 | ‘ 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 | I 'll do you a mock up of that and see what you |
| 18 | Okay , so tomorrow erm I will do you a mock up for a , a bilingual one |
| 19 | She had done him a beautiful hand-painted one the year before with ‘ Lots of love ’ on it . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Let's see if we can do it a different way . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
| 30 | And he 's got ta do it a few times , so then the cost becomes and , and you like let's be fair , we 've had summers where it 's the weeds er the weeds have n't grown , but you get a wet summer and the weather warms and the wet and the weeds go peooow up like that . |