Example sentences of "it for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’ |
| 32 | Jessye Norman , clad in a tricolour , was there to do it for them on TV . |
| 33 | Those that did n't , that was it for them . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ People do n't seem to understand that a hypnotherapist ca n't do it for them , and neither can any other magic ingredient . |
| 35 | The point is not lost on developing countries : if the rich countries think the strategy beneficial , there must be something in it for them too . |
| 36 | Morag does it , Morag does it for them anyway |
| 37 | They employ a fungus to do it for them . |
| 38 | Primarily , though by no means exclusively , it is the English middle class which , somewhat self-consciously , ‘ appreciates ’ the countryside — and which is determined that others will not ‘ spoil ’ it for them . |
| 39 | ‘ But if it 's the giants you 're wanting to fool , then it 'd be the grand old Draoicht Suan , ’ said Pumlumon , and the Gnomes nodded sagely and said that would be it , the Draoicht Suan it would be , the spell that had kept the Trees fast asleep for so many years now , and was n't it a powerful strong spell and Pumlumon the fellow to be spinning it for them all ? |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Sometimes the people that owned the book had to pay it for them you know . |
| 42 | Just who did it for them she did n't seem to know , it was all contacts of Gustav 's . |
| 43 | Of course the bigger clients are getting the message and do keep in touch but with the rest it 's proving hard work teasing out the issues and reassuring there 's value in it for them . |
| 44 | you would order it for them ? |
| 45 | I wonder the British do n't bath in it as well , thought Sally-Anne naughtily , but she was grateful for the extra cup , and for the sandwiches which Miss Mates brought in with it for them both . |
| 46 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 47 | And it would just completely throw the lesson , and then I would find myself repeating it for them , and in one lesson I must have done that about three times , and I did n't make enough fuss to get those kids to the lesson on time . |
| 48 | ‘ No chance that they 'd have conspired to bribe Ramsbum or Gooseneck or someone to do it for them ? ’ |
| 49 | Next morning , whether or not Jessica had meant to change the plan , the weather did it for them . |
| 50 | ‘ Who 'd want undressing by a maid , ’ said Jessica , ‘ if they had you to do it for them ? |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Then Deutschlandsender made their announcement yesterday that Hess had flown the coop and I think that clinched it for them . |
| 53 | And this fella 's just ran , this Piggot 's , all got a head man to do it for them . |
| 54 | Er we we go in and sell the advertising if they er we 'll take over as soon as the current supply runs out we we 'll start offering er and supply it for them . |
| 55 | But in the main we will lift whatever they want if they 've got something like that in existence if not we 'll do it for them . |
| 56 | That , that you 've got to create it for them . |
| 57 | I mean by just doing this sort of settling of accounts is that creating it for them ? |
| 58 | This would do it for them , would n't it . |
| 59 | I am really sad that nobody wants to do it like I have done it for them . |
| 60 | But if they 're not celebrating the Labour Party will do it for them . |