Example sentences of "to do it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doors with wood or aluminium frames are widely available from builders ' merchants and timber yards , and you can either do the work yourself or call in a local builder to do it for you . |
| 2 | One could imagine a ‘ price pause ’ for a limited time ; but after that — is there something familiar about all this ? — one would have to start discovering which prices ought to rise and which ought to fall to offset them , and this is just what we want a commission to do for us because we pretend that we do n't know how to do it for ourselves . |
| 3 | If not , let us put our own house in order and not wait for others to do it for us . |
| 4 | Now they 've got to do it for themselves . |
| 5 | If you are scoring the tests yourself , rather than getting the computer to do it for you , then always do so at the same time of day — otherwise there would be variability due to time-of-day effects upon your scoring ability . |
| 6 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 7 | And he added : ‘ It is important to me that the boys know I offered to do it for nothing . ’ |
| 8 | It is not fair to expect your local delicatessen to do it for you as it takes a long time to slice the whole ham and Parma must be cut thinly . |
| 9 | Five thousand ambulance drivers can not do their own negotiating — they need representatives to do it for them . |
| 10 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 14 | ‘ If I do it for you , I 've got to do it for everyone … |
| 15 | The main advantage of building your own — or getting a local builder in to do it for you — is that you can satisfy your requirements precisely , cope with all sorts of little local site difficulties , and create a building that is a good match for your house style . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ Barry concluded , ‘ there 's no way to do it for less than six hundred dollars . ’ |
| 17 | SR can not be all things to all women — it must be a reflection of the concerns of its editors , like any magazine and we must remember how harmful struggling for control of our ‘ tiny slice ’ of power can be and put our astonishing energy and feeling into creating a world in which we can expand and fill our rightful share of Smiths with our chosen , positive images of women — the men are n't going to do it for us . |
| 18 | If you are able to balance straights yourself or have asked a nutritionist to do it for you all well and good , but for the horse owner with little or no experience in feeding , compound feeds are the answer . |
| 19 | Not just for yourself , you 've got to do it for the rest . |
| 20 | Because her expectations were realistic , she accepts without rancour the fact that she must either do the work herself or employ someone to do it for her . |
| 21 | If there is something you can not do , you can ask a friend to help or pay someone to do it for you . |
| 22 | I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’ |
| 23 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
| 24 | If a natural pair has formed it is probably best to transfer just these two fish to their new quarters ; or else you can move the fish when smaller and let them pair off in their new home , removing the surplus individuals before the spawning pair try to do it for you . |
| 25 | Remove the breasts and thighs from the turkey carcase — or ask your butcher to do it for you . |
| 26 | Playing music is what I love — and I want to do it for as long as possible . ’ |
| 27 | It was a big step to do it and I wanted to do it for Freddie . |
| 28 | ‘ You know what I want to do — and I wanted to do it for Jimi 's birthday in his anniversary year , but it did n't happen — I want to get everybody that ever recorded with him , anybody who played live with him , get them all at a big reunion and go out and play Hendrix all night long — every song that I know , every song that we could possibly do . |
| 29 | We want to do it for him . ’ |
| 30 | In the course of a beauty parade , Price Waterhouse took the audit from Coopers & Lybrand , but agreed to do it for 14% less . |