Example sentences of "to do it for " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ All it means is you ca n't sort yourself out and you are asking somebody else to do it for you . ’ |
| 32 | Wood , steel and aluminium frames are widely available from builder 's merchants and timber yards in a range of traditional standard patterns and sizes , and you can either do the work yourself or call in a local builder to do it for you . |
| 33 | Frankie appeared as I was filling the kettle and offered to do it for me . |
| 34 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 35 | You ca n't pay anyone to do it for you . |
| 36 | ‘ The salesman was there four hours , he knew what he was doing , what the job involved and how much he was offering to do it for . ’ |
| 37 | However , out of the blue came the offer of a friend to do it for me , and naturally I accepted gratefully . |
| 38 | We have to remember that we are not the only people who take recreation in the countryside ; we share it with others , whose views about disfiguring a crag with bolts and taking a drill there to do it for goodness sake ! may be very different from ours . |
| 39 | The last thing you want is to start an involved conversation because when you come to do it for real , it can all seem a bit stale . |
| 40 | Watching Maureen feed very small birds who were unable to do it for themselves was to stand me in good stead later , when I began breeding barn owls . |
| 41 | Are you going to throw that flaming dice or do I have to do it for you ? |
| 42 | If they do not [ change the name ] we will have to do it for them . ’ |
| 43 | She needs to break through and this could be the one to do it for her . |
| 44 | Jessye Norman , clad in a tricolour , was there to do it for them on TV . |
| 45 | ASK A PORTER OR ANOTHER OFFICIAL TO DO IT FOR YOU . |
| 46 | Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices . |
| 47 | They employ a fungus to do it for them . |
| 48 | ‘ She listened to me and said , ‘ I 'm sorry , darling , but I was n't going to do it for you . |
| 49 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 50 | Because there was no Anthea to do it for him now . |
| 51 | Christmas trees , and I have two small children that to try to sustain Christmas for three or four days is very difficult , to do it for three months is impossible ! |
| 52 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |
| 53 | ‘ I 've been wanting to do it for years . ’ |
| 54 | She decided there was only one cure , and that was to do it for real . |
| 55 | It seems they did n't trust me to do it for you . ’ |
| 56 | Few of us have the time , training , or expertise to do this job properly , even if it were possible to do it for a population as small as 10 000 people — which it is not . |
| 57 | She was never left to do it for herself . |
| 58 | If she wo n't let you I 'll help you and if neither of us can do it quietly we 'll call my master to do it for us . |
| 59 | In today 's market this almost inevitably means using PostScript to drive a Linotronic 100 or 300 system and , equally inevitably , relying on a bureau to do it for you as the systems cost £25,000 and up . |
| 60 | 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 . |