Example sentences of "[vb past] do [prep] him " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Nothing really , except that last week Angy showed us a sketch she 'd done of him .
2 But then , he did n't know what she 'd done for him and was going to do .
3 I knew then you 'd done for him all right . ’
4 But you 'd got hold of him , and you 'd squeezed him till the pips rattled , and you 'd done for him as a man .
5 And peered into his face , as she had done to him as a child , searching for signs of fever .
6 He hated the car and he hated himself in it ; he hated what it could do to him and what it had done to him .
7 Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) .
8 By giving me a little he was showing both concern for me and his determination that I should pay materially for what I had done to him .
9 She did n't know what else to say , she was horrified by what they had done to him .
10 Even after all she had done to him .
11 Pity for what time had done to him .
12 Mourning the death of his adopted daughter in the raid , Gaddafi was inviting the world to come and see what the Americans had done to him .
13 His voice was hatefully mocking , and whether it was the drink talking , or his resentment of all women because of what one beautiful woman had done to him , Dr Neil did not know .
14 He knew he must have been knocked out , and he wondered just how much damage the oriental had done to him .
15 Nithard pointed out that what Lothar had done to him was just what he planned to do to Charles .
16 Guido was being mercifully discreet about what Silvia and Jeff had done to him , when she had thought it would be more his style to rant and rave in anger .
17 After what Clive had done for him , he would be forever in his debt .
18 The stink assailed his nostrils , bringing back memories of that last visit and what it had done for him .
19 It was the law of joint enterprise in homicide which had done for him , the same law which had hanged Derek Bentley .
20 First he looked through the typed notes that Diane had done for him .
21 This is what Sandro had done for him .
22 unwound himself and you could tell his two years , what it had done for him .
23 He wanted to do a better job than his father had done with him .
24 ‘ I had done with him years ago . ’
25 How can we represent other cultures ? asks Said , as Lévi-Strauss had done before him .
26 He could , as Balestre had done before him , mould a new image for international car racing .
27 Darwin delighted in the exquisite adaptations which he saw in living creatures , as Paley and other natural theologians had done before him : contemplating fossils ( or nature generally ) could bring pleasure or pain depending on one 's temperament and state .
28 If they had to do without him he would n't be greatly missed , and he doubted whether they would put themselves out to keep him .
29 Kate was curiously fascinating , but mixed in with the fascination was a sort of fear ; and over the last few months she had made it quite clear that the less she had to do with him , the better she would like it .
30 Because I was less a true coward , a calculating coward , than someone so innocent , or so Greek , that he could not see what the war had to do with him .
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