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

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1 Get a girl to do it for you .
2 ‘ 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 . ’
3 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 .
4 They employ a fungus to do it for them .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Could he expect Nebamun to do it for him ?
8 what you have to do is you have to get your sister to do it for you .
9 Remove the breasts and thighs from the turkey carcase — or ask your butcher to do it for you .
10 However , out of the blue came the offer of a friend to do it for me , and naturally I accepted gratefully .
11 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 .
12 And this fella 's just ran , this Piggot 's , all got a head man to do it for them .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ASK A PORTER OR ANOTHER OFFICIAL TO DO IT FOR YOU .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
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