Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for us " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 2 | Daft as it seems , we could have won it because the kick was produced too quick for Paul Simpson and we hit the ball later on , Mark Stein 's a little back header , very unlucky not to win it for us . |
| 3 | If not , let us put our own house in order and not wait for others to do it for us . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean we 'll pay someone to do it for us , ’ she snapped at him . |
| 7 | When I asked them about it later , they said , oh no , we have no intention of doing Anthems of the Nations , perhaps you would like to do it for us . |
| 8 | ‘ We are quite capable of running our own piggy bank , without asking someone else to do it for us . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We wish , my brother and I , we wish you to take some of our money and to invest it for us in — in such places where you invest your own . ’ |
| 10 | We license each other , albeit with misgivings and with institutional or legislative safeguards , to tell us what we need and to produce it for us . |