Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour Department can cajole companies to break the ceiling themselves before someone does it for them . |
| 2 | Somebody uses it for boozing sessions . ’ |
| 3 | You make your own mind up pet nobody does it for you . |
| 4 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 5 | But it is when one sees it for oneself that the problem is really understood . |