Example sentences of "do [pron] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not just that his career had suffered : he would have been an errand boy if it would have done her any good . |
| 2 | Anne : What about Mr Major has he actually done himself any good this week ? |
| 3 | It could do nobody any good . |
| 4 | Peter joking apart have the tories done themselves any good this week ? |
| 5 | It 's not doing anyone any good . |
| 6 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 7 | Just lack of food and bad temper coming together , which never did her any good . |
| 8 | ‘ Guilt never did anybody any good , did it ? ’ she asks across three thousand miles . |
| 9 | Father shook his head sympathetically , but said , ‘ Temper , Kit , never did anyone any good . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It does no-one any good if there is a split between a section of supporters and the club . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think it does anyone any good to have been on the same patch of ground for five hundred years . |