Example sentences of "do [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Next time he 'd do them a bloody bunch of daffodils .
2 Chandos Herald , the Black Prince 's biographer , makes the prince reply to Charles V 's letter citing him to appear before the parlement of Paris by saying , ‘ Lords , by my faith it seems to me that the French think I am dead ; but if God gives me comfort , and I can get up from this bed , I will do them a great deal of harm even now , for God knows that they lack a good case , and they will have real cause to complain of me . ’
3 He said : ‘ The word from Manchester United fans was that we could do them a big favour , and we 've undoubtedly done them one , but I got the impression that our own fans would not have been too bothered if we 'd lost today . ’
4 Middlesbrough , with goalkeeper Ian Ironside making his first-team debut at Wolves , are hoping that local rivals Newcastle United can do them a big favour .
5 Let's do them the other way round let's talk first of all about the visual aids .
6 But thank goodness it did n't do me no permanent harm .
7 The hon. Gentleman would do me a great favour if he could kindly confirm that his party , if in power , would spend an extra £13 billion above what we are spending .
8 Can you do me a small favour ? ’
9 Can you do me a little exercise first just to er write down write down what erm of what we 're trying to reveal .
10 ‘ Frank , could you do me a big favour and see if you can find who this guy Azul is ? ’
11 ‘ And it has n't done me a whole lot of good , let me tell you !
12 Time to fast from it That session with She-She had done me no good at all .
13 But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony .
14 FOOTBALL fans thought Lord Justice Taylor had done them a big favour when his report into the Hillsborough tragedy condemned the ill-thought ID card scheme to the dustbin of history .
15 And matey done them a little bit longer .
16 What would Fen say if she gave him a truthful answer , told him that Hugh had done her a good turn , jilted her before she could make the most dreadful mistake of her life ?
17 ‘ She told us to come up an' do yer a nice kindness by talkin' to yer . ’
18 Sometimes they give you the feeling that they have done you a great favour by attending rehearsals and at the end of the rehearsal period it 's ‘ Bye-bye loves , now you do your thing and I 'll go off and do another ’ .
19 Do you know , it 's a most peculiar thing , a number of people who said , erm , one of our really made me laugh , a couple of Friday 's ago , came and said to me , typical , Christ , he 's done you a big favour has n't he ?
20 ‘ I could do you a great deal on a Navajo Scorpion . ’
21 I 'll do you a mock up of that and see what you
22 Okay , so tomorrow erm I will do you a mock up for a , a bilingual one
23 ‘ Did it do you no good at all ?
24 ‘ It ca n't do you no good if you spit it out .
25 And he said yes you can , but it would do you no good at all , cos if the point came when you split up the judge would n't look at your contract , he would only consider the rights of the child .
26 ‘ Ai n't gon na do you the slightest good any which way .
27 ‘ Threat ’ when used in this connection means ‘ an intimation by one to another that unless the latter does or does not do something the former will do something which the latter will not like . ’
28 The anticipated sense of loss can be so strong and the wish to feel you have done everything the dying person wanted so real that the people involved will often comply no matter how outrageous the request .
29 ‘ Now let's do one the other way , Dustin .
30 All too often in politics we are handicapped by the fact that Mrs Jones has done something a certain way for twenty-seven years and therefore must be allowed to do it again this time .
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