Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] for they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing . |
| 2 | They 're they 're the eyes and ears of their boss and they have to report any political pressure so we have to find something for them to report basically . |
| 3 | He says the nineteen sixty-eight caravan act does n't include new-age travellers who are not traditional gypsies so we do n't have to provide anything for them by law . |
| 4 | That , that you 've got to create it for them . |
| 5 | I unlocked the passenger door of the Transit for them but I thought it best not to open it for them or offer them a hand up and in . |
| 6 | People would expect you to do everything for them ; revitalise the planet , solve all their problems , etc. ’ without doing anything themselves . |
| 7 | See that other members of the family , if you have one , stop depending on you to do everything for them , as they did when they were younger . |
| 8 | I think that 's why I like children — because there was always somebody smaller than me and I had to do everything for them really when I was younger — feed them , change their nappies … |
| 9 | Everyone in the castle where he lives had become totally reliant on him to do everything for them , so the loss of the magic is somewhat disastrous . |
| 10 | We have all come across women who had children by accident , because they thought it was the thing to do , or because they wanted to qualify for Council accommodation , and we have all come across women who expected someone else to do everything for them . |
| 11 | The young nurse , whose feet ached something cruel and who was desperate to snatch a cup of tea before somebody else asked her to do something for them , looked them up and down . |
| 12 | The social worker can give them emotional support too , strengthening any network of support that already exists from relatives , friends and neighbours , or trying to form one for them if they are in a position of isolation . |
| 13 | Five thousand ambulance drivers can not do their own negotiating — they need representatives to do it for them . |
| 14 | If they could not exercise that power themselves , or count on the eastern empire to do it for them , then they would find it where they could . |
| 15 | ‘ Now , the white people who own the plantations are much too lazy to do the work themselves and that is why they buy black slaves from Africa to do it for them . |
| 16 | If they do not [ change the name ] we will have to do it for them . ’ |
| 17 | Jessye Norman , clad in a tricolour , was there to do it for them on TV . |
| 18 | They employ a fungus to do it for them . |
| 19 | All the women we spoke to agreed that it 's up to the families themselves to fight for their rights and recognition — sadly no one else is going to do it for them . |
| 20 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 21 | ‘ No chance that they 'd have conspired to bribe Ramsbum or Gooseneck or someone to do it for them ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Who 'd want undressing by a maid , ’ said Jessica , ‘ if they had you to do it for them ? |
| 23 | And this fella 's just ran , this Piggot 's , all got a head man to do it for them . |
| 24 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 25 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |
| 26 | But I think that the greatest tribute of all that can be paid to Peggy , and I feel sure it would come from her members and it 's this , and it 's basically what the trade union movement is all about and it 's about representing ordinary people at the shop floor because whenever anybody asks Peggy to do anything for them , to represent them , she 's always the first one there . |
| 27 | Now the theatre trust is seeking an management company to run it for them . |
| 28 | Yeah , the chemist may not have those in stock but they 'll be able to get you for them within twenty four hours , you 're |
| 29 | But before he could think of engaging skilled workers , Mendoros had to have something for them do — beyond sending out a few spare parts . |
| 30 | Sometimes the people that owned the book had to pay it for them you know . |