Example sentences of "[be] do [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation . |
| 2 | He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why . |
| 3 | And with good reason — it has been done to him already ! |
| 4 | He says no word of what 's been done to him , he shows no mark , but the thing is there , and I can not account for it . ’ |
| 5 | He also offered in 1014 to forgive all the things that had been done against him , providing that the English returned to their allegiance without treachery . |
| 6 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 7 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 8 | What have you been doing to him ? |
| 9 | ‘ He appreciates what others in the team are doing for him , because what I 've done is pick a team around him , ’ explained Taylor . |
| 10 | I have great sympathy with Linford ; what they are doing to him is totally disgraceful . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Any business that needs to be done with him , I 'll see to . ’ |
| 12 | I tell you this : if anyone says to this mountain , ‘ Be lifted from your place and hurled into the sea , ’ and has no inward doubts , but believes that what he says is happening , it will be done for him ’ ( Mark 11:23 ) . |
| 13 | For surely someone as gifted as that deserved all that could be done for him : and ‘ the gift ’ put it above any gossip about an overkeen schoolmaster bringing on a bright pupil and overrode any chatter about the besotted nature of his devotion . |
| 14 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's heart-warming , ’ volunteered Mr Kronweiser , ‘ that justice will be done to him at last . ’ |
| 16 | Before long , through unobtrusive questioning , he had discovered the root of the boy 's fear — simply that he did not know what was going to be done to him . |
| 17 | ‘ Naturally , we are delighted with Johnny 's football success , particularly in the Irish Cup , but we could be doing with him at Lurgan , ’ said skipper Ross McCollum . |
| 18 | he 's a real old woman , urgh , I ca n't be doing with him |
| 19 | That 's what I 'm doing for him now . |
| 20 | It registered the further damage being done to him . |
| 21 | You should have heard what they were doing to him . |
| 22 | That the program-crunching is done for him by people in Breslau , Poland , who re-transmit the results back to his office in Invernessshire for checking before sending down the line to his customer in the Thames Valley , shows that the supposed imperfections of two apparently notorious national telephone systems in fact present no real obstacle . |
| 23 | Everything is done for him . |
| 24 | This does not change the fact that , as far as Gandhi is concerned , ahi sā informs the spirit and the circumstances in which violence is done by him . |
| 25 | I erm , did something to her friend like erm you know , this lad she 's supposed to be going with , I du n no what she 's doing with him or anything . |
| 26 | She was done with him . |
| 27 | Something was done to him . |
| 28 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 29 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |
| 30 | That other people think the job has been well done is far more important to him , he says , than the fact that it was done by him . |