Example sentences of "to do [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was to Duncan the Drunken in Barking who agreed to do me a weekend deal on a Transit in exchange for a loan of Armstrong . |
| 2 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't want you to do me a favour . ’ |
| 4 | He wants me I mean he wants to do me a favour , Paul , so he might gi he might , you know I mean he say for us , I mean for us he would |
| 5 | Well , yes , but I wanted them to do me a list you see . |
| 6 | Dear Comrade Surkov , You are warmly invited to do me the honour of attending my forthcoming Inauguration in Washington DC , on 20 January 1989 , as 41st President of the United States , and to read your famous poem of international accord , ‘ Friendship ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ May I present myself , Mrs. Stevenson , since I am unable to find Madame Rodet to do me the honour ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You write up the more interesting parts of what they say and leave out the dull bits to do them a favour — if you like them . |
| 9 | So there will be a slight improvement on that position but erm I do feel that we have to continue to do them the costume plays we ca n't just say oh we do n't make a profit on it , we ca n't do it , I think that would be a very shortsighted erm philosophy . |
| 10 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 11 | In trying to persuade to move away from arrangements which utilize those bearings we 're effectively trying to do ourselves a favour , because we can not provide those bearings , but we 're not necessarily offering the optimum engineering solution , or maybe even the total cost solution in certain applications |
| 12 | ‘ We need to do somethin' a bit more excitin' , like , ’ said George impatiently . |
| 13 | You are good at expressing yourself , which stands you in good stead if you want to ask someone to do you a favour . |
| 14 | Preston , I 'm going to do you a favour . ’ |
| 15 | However much he bucked against it , in the end , if he wanted to survive in this world , let alone succeed , he had to do everything the schoolteacher instructed him to do . |
| 16 | In the school library , time constraints make it impossible to do everything the school librarian would like to do in microcomputer applications . |
| 17 | He is the man who wants to take part , who wants to do everything the woman does where possible . |
| 18 | ‘ Garret FitzGerald advised me to shut up , saying you do n't have to do everything the SDLP wants , but do n't come out and say it stinks . |
| 19 | A lot of us ignore the fact that people do have their own development and they want to do something a bit more exciting , but unless we 're given the opportunity ask will they want to demonstrate it ? |
| 20 | We want to do something a bit different . |
| 21 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 22 | If doctors fail to do something the Bill lays down , the could be fined or go to prison for six months . |
| 23 | To encourage the basically extrovert person to develop his praying in a way more suited to the introvert is to do him a disservice , and since many books on prayer are written by introverts we can quickly fall into this trap . |
| 24 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 25 | In the cafe she found Fosdyke nursing a malt whisky ( 'Kept for me specially by Carlo because I was once able to do him a favour' ) and the children occupied with a Space Invader machine for which he had advanced them hundred lire pieces . |
| 26 | She had invaded his cranny to do him a favour . |
| 27 | In what seems a somewhat specious argument , she urges Leo to bathe with her in the fire so that their mortal sins may be purged : but although the fire at first seems to do her no harm as she shows him the way into it , the self-seeking nature of her love becomes evident as her ageless beauty is destroyed : |
| 28 | I 'd have to do it every hour . |
| 29 | Only he had to do it every day . |
| 30 | Er , and the work just gets done , you do n't need to do it every day . |