Example sentences of "do it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did you do it for , you — ? he said , bunching his right hand into a fist and pressing it in agony into his left palm . |
| 2 | Then one lady wrote and said that the ladies of the local church should do it for us . |
| 3 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 4 | But in that case , let us do it for him . |
| 5 | In that case the Lapp had said he would do it for a few drinks if we had any with us . |
| 6 | Even Samuel Montagu had said the purpose of the Crown Suppliers was to provide for departments more efficiently than they could do it for themselves or from any other source . |
| 7 | Any fool can buy a blue-chip index ; Aunt Agatha could do it for herself , if she had the money and a stockbroker . |
| 8 | They 'd done it for Adam and Christopher and they 'd do it for him . |
| 9 | I 'll do it for nothing — just my food and a bed in the attic looking out over the chimney-pots . |
| 10 | In order to teach potential students the value of laundry work you make them do it for a while . |
| 11 | Try out the PA system on site ; do n't take the management 's word that they 'll do it for you . |
| 12 | Whatever did they do it for ? |
| 13 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 14 | ‘ When you left my mother 's house , and I behind you , I swore to her that whatever was your need , I would do it for you . |
| 15 | We do not do it for any other aspect of our social existence . |
| 16 | We should not do it for our sex . |
| 17 | ‘ If you want to go swimming you can do it for less than £800 a day . |
| 18 | Each task must be judged in terms of the basic question : Do I need to do this or could someone else do it for me ? |
| 19 | We can not do it for ourselves , it is gift and grace — God acting on and in us to create a new willingness to see with his eyes , think with his mind , adopt his values and attitudes ( 1 Cor. |
| 20 | And you can do it for a fraction of the price and without finding yourself on first-name-terms with your local AA recovery team . |
| 21 | Knock on her door at 3 a.m. for a leg massage and I swear she would get up and do it for you , though she might swear a little under her breath ! |
| 22 | I told her I 'll do my own thing , I 'm not letting them do it for me . |
| 23 | Or you could do what my elderly neighbour does : every time she feels like decorating she pays a neighbour 's student son to come in and do it for her . |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't do it for anybody else on the staff , but you 're the best worker we 've had here . ’ |
| 25 | It just makes you feel good because you kid yourself they 'd do it for free anyway . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I could do it for thirteen . |
| 27 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 28 | Safe Sex : a picture of the guitar — a Les Paul will do it for me every time . |
| 29 | If it did it for them it can do it for me ! ’ |
| 30 | I reckon I 'd do it for a thousand pounds . |