Example sentences of "do [pers pn] [art] [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 | 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 | Time to fast from it That session with She-She had done me no good at all . |
13 | But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | And matey done them a little bit longer . |
16 | ‘ She told us to come up an' do yer a nice kindness by talkin' to yer . ’ |
17 | 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 ’ . |
18 | 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 ? |
19 | ‘ I could do you a great deal on a Navajo Scorpion . ’ |
20 | I 'll do you a mock up of that and see what you |
21 | Okay , so tomorrow erm I will do you a mock up for a , a bilingual one |
22 | ‘ Did it do you no good at all ? |
23 | ‘ It ca n't do you no good if you spit it out . |
24 | And he said yes you can , but it would do you no good at all , cos if the point came when you split up the judge would n't look at your contract , he would only consider the rights of the child . |
25 | She straightened her shoulders , harking back to the past would do her no good at all , it was all gone , like a once-cherished dream . |
26 | It would do her no good now . |
27 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
28 | She had done him a beautiful hand-painted one the year before with ‘ Lots of love ’ on it . |
29 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
30 | 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 . |