Example sentences of "[adv] to do it for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If you 're good at do-it-yourself , then fine , have a go , if you 're not this particularly applies to the gents , swallow your pride and get somebody in to do it for you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ All it means is you ca n't sort yourself out and you are asking somebody else to do it for you . ’ |
| 6 | The , in analysis you do n't get er someone else to do it for you or you do n't get the therapist to play the role of your ego which is really what happens in this suggestion . |
| 7 | Blackmail somebody else to do it for you . |
| 8 | ‘ We are quite capable of running our own piggy bank , without asking someone else to do it for us . ’ |