Example sentences of "do [det] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Umm do n't do that darling to the flowers . |
| 2 | ‘ The IRA might do some harm to her . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's one who carries more , and could do this office to better effect . ’ |
| 4 | It 's , it 's a bit silly is could have done some damage to your eye . |
| 5 | It could cross the open sea , and land on the enemy coast small groups of men who , in raids lasting perhaps a few hours or , at most , a day or two , could do much damage to both enemy property and morale . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't look as though he could do much running to me , ’ Billy butted in . |
| 7 | If whoever bought it had an unsavoury reputation it would n't do much harm to the seagulls or Brent geese . |
| 8 | And the princess 's closest friends claim that the friendship has done much harm to the royal marriage . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing would do more damage to job prospects … across Europe , than the imposition of further tax or regulatory burdens on employers . |
| 10 | ‘ Believe me , ’ she told him , ‘ you may do more good to the firm if you stay here . |
| 11 | The man who told me about them is not afraid because he can do more harm to them than they can inflict on him . ’ |
| 12 | they do n't do enough work to really create any problems today , do you see what they 're to do somebody will say ooh we 'll go out for a ride |
| 13 | Well did that not do any damage to their ribs then ? |
| 14 | The thief did n't do any damage to it , did he ? ’ |
| 15 | I do n't think you 'd do any harm to us . |
| 16 | also the people on the ground I mean er surely it would n't do any harm to actually sit down and put some veiws forward from the whole department |
| 17 | The women standing on the edge of Havvie 's party shrieked and Maybelle Blaine cried viciously to the distraught Sally-Anne , ‘ Have n't you done enough damage to poor Havvie , Sally-Anne Tunstall , without egging on another of your lovers to attack him ? ’ |
| 18 | Do n't you think that man has done enough harm to Jennifer as it is without inflicting any more pain on her ? ’ |
| 19 | The commentator who has done most justice to this appeal to Virgil by way of Gavin Douglas is the South African , Anthony Woodward . |
| 20 | To do little damage to the economy is , for a chancellor , a huge achievement . |
| 21 | For example , a man who wished to make certain grievances clear to his boss decided that this was best approached , in the first instance , by writing to his boss because he realized that , were he to try to do this face to face , he would find it difficult to express himself without losing his temper . |
| 22 | The plans are passed , but we still have to find the funds and the effort to do this job to the high standard of the existing museum . |
| 23 | It is true that the glycol does depress the freezing point of the resulting mixture considerably and so postpones freezing but , when this eventually does happen the result is a mushy ice without mechanical strength which is unlikely to do much harm to the engine . |
| 24 | ‘ I think that in six or seven months I 'll be much more competitive and able to do more justice to myself , ’ he said , adding that his current form in matches fell well below the standard he is reaching in practice . |
| 25 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 26 | I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion . |
| 27 | If you 're to do any service to Harry , you must not appear in this . |
| 28 | It was more interesting that doing this stuff to all the cream cakes . |
| 29 | I 'm not very good at sitting doing this face to face but |
| 30 | I reckoned we were doing more damage to Naamen 's image than the demonstrators . |