Example sentences of "[noun] to do it for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He , sh she ought to learn to sh she 's , they was all on about how Shrimpy ca n't stick up for himself , and then flaming Emma does exactly the same but worse cos she gets Scott to do it for her .
2 Get a girl to do it for you .
3 ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’
4 The major part of the job is electrical and if you 're not confident about tackling this , get a qualified electrician to do it for you .
5 They employ a fungus to do it for them .
6 Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them .
7 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 .
8 Could he expect Nebamun to do it for him ?
9 what you have to do is you have to get your sister to do it for you .
10 Remove the breasts and thighs from the turkey carcase — or ask your butcher to do it for you .
11 However , out of the blue came the offer of a friend to do it for me , and naturally I accepted gratefully .
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 She rubbed at herself inneffectually and he had an impulse to do it for her ; if Oliver had been with them , he would have dried them both , enjoying the feel of their lively , vigorous little bodies , but on her own , without Oliver , she seemed too grown-up , not a child any more .
14 And this fella 's just ran , this Piggot 's , all got a head man to do it for them .
15 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 .
16 Because you 're not , although you 're using the power space , the power er er of the production line or equipment , they might not be , that might not be what you 're making , you 're just using that kit and you need the supplier of that kit to bring an engineer in and you need to get a part of it , but you want control of that rather than just waiting on a supplier to do it for you .
17 ASK A PORTER OR ANOTHER OFFICIAL TO DO IT FOR YOU .
18 In today 's market this almost inevitably means using PostScript to drive a Linotronic 100 or 300 system and , equally inevitably , relying on a bureau to do it for you as the systems cost £25,000 and up .
19 Because there was no Anthea to do it for him now .
20 If you are not sure who to get in touch with for help and advice , ring the Winter Warmth Line 0800 289 404 or get a friend or relation to do it for you .
21 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 .
22 Wood , steel and aluminium frames are widely available from builder 's merchants and timber yards in a range of traditional standard patterns and sizes , and you can either do the work yourself or call in a local builder to do it for you .
23 If you 're away on holiday and ca n't do that getting a neighbour to do it for you , to look after your house , shut the curtains at night and opening them during the day .
24 In Darcy 's Utopia each man will attempt to read the mind of God and not rely on others to do it for him .
25 If not , let us put our own house in order and not wait for others to do it for us .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Five thousand ambulance drivers can not do their own negotiating — they need representatives to do it for them .
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