Example sentences of "to do it for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to do it for him . ’ |
| 2 | Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices . |
| 3 | Because there was no Anthea to do it for him now . |
| 4 | He wanted her to do it for him , but she was busy across the hall . |
| 5 | He is , if he can get you to do it for him , then it 's done . |
| 6 | Could he expect Nebamun to do it for him ? |
| 7 | In Darcy 's Utopia each man will attempt to read the mind of God and not rely on others to do it for him . |
| 8 | So we agreed to do it for him . |
| 9 | Frankie appeared as I was filling the kettle and offered to do it for me . |
| 10 | However , out of the blue came the offer of a friend to do it for me , and naturally I accepted gratefully . |
| 11 | At this time I did n't have a clue about fitting this type of equipment and had to pay somebody to do it for me . |
| 12 | My husband has to do it for me . |
| 13 | My my er my the convincing I have to do in myself and and you have to do it for me is whether this is is the right platform for you . |
| 14 | I said , he said I ca n't do it , you 've got to do it for me ! |
| 15 | Five thousand ambulance drivers can not do their own negotiating — they need representatives to do it for them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | If they do not [ change the name ] we will have to do it for them . ’ |
| 19 | Jessye Norman , clad in a tricolour , was there to do it for them on TV . |
| 20 | They employ a fungus to do it for them . |
| 21 | All the women we spoke to agreed that it 's up to the families themselves to fight for their rights and recognition — sadly no one else is going to do it for them . |
| 22 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 23 | ‘ No chance that they 'd have conspired to bribe Ramsbum or Gooseneck or someone to do it for them ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Who 'd want undressing by a maid , ’ said Jessica , ‘ if they had you to do it for them ? |
| 25 | And this fella 's just ran , this Piggot 's , all got a head man to do it for them . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Because her expectations were realistic , she accepts without rancour the fact that she must either do the work herself or employ someone to do it for her . |
| 29 | She needs to break through and this could be the one to do it for her . |
| 30 | 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 . |