Example sentences of "[adv] do [pers pn] any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So do you any kind of precaution to actua against that kind of thing happening ?
2 As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home .
3 I had never done him any harm , yet I seemed to be the object of a deliberate campaign .
4 Four spoonfuls a cup , and bags of boiled sweets on the side , have never done him any harm , he reckons .
5 ‘ They 've never done me any harm and I have seven bairns , ’ she said while eating a bag of chips in the sun .
6 With remarks like ‘ Ah well , that never did me any harm ; I have gone through worse ’ , he would brush aside his colleagues ' explorations as irrelevant , yet hint at having himself suffered as a child .
7 While I 'm standing up to my thighs in water trying to kill a lot of fish that never did me any harm , somebody in this town takes it into his head to rub out Jack Mahoney . ’
8 He never did me any harm . ’
9 But it never did it any good they never got to run their own economy .
10 Many a time I had the hand-brush and so did my brothers and sisters but it never did us any harm .
11 He never does them any harm .
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