Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 2 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 3 | I think Mum made it for me . |
| 4 | All of these methods of teaching are based on the understanding that , in addition to being given information , young people need the opportunity to discover it for themselves . |
| 5 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate . |
| 6 | It would do me no harm to accept it for what it is : an idiosyncrasy of chub , and stop trying to find out why . |
| 7 | ‘ It was a pity the wind ruined it for everyone . ’ |
| 8 | Mummy do it for you . |
| 9 | By the way , you do n't have to move the needles that were in non-working position on the main bed to working position before transferring — the rib transfer carriage does it for you . |
| 10 | The spring does it for you . ’ |
| 11 | Well my Mum done it for me . |
| 12 | ‘ I hope someone 's at home videoing it for him . ’ |
| 13 | Get a girl to do it for you . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They employ a fungus to do it for them . |
| 17 | Well this lovely , lovely boy did it for me ! |
| 18 | The US pair returned a 28-under-par combined four-round total of 548 , and US Masters champion Couples declared : ‘ Davis 's putt on the last green won it for us , and I feel very sorry for Per-Ulrik . |
| 19 | In this sample , however , not one parent wanted it for their own child , and in general they were more prescriptive about what was morally correct for other parents here than on any other issue . |
| 20 | is called we that 's the question read it for yourself ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was a birthday present for his wife , could the business travel team retrieve it for him ? |
| 24 | Kate did a twirl , ‘ Daddy bought it for me . |
| 25 | Well if you stop crying and ask for it properly and you do n't mind if mummy or daddy do it for you that 's fine . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He asked permission to leave it for her the following day . |
| 28 | Could he expect Nebamun to do it for him ? |
| 29 | what you have to do is you have to get your sister to do it for you . |
| 30 | As for old-age pensioners , one such Member of the House was slow to pay her community charge bill to the London borough of Barnet , but then a friend paid it for her . |