Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] 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 | He had time only to recognise it for what it was — a signal flare gun — before it belched a tongue of green flame at him . |
| 5 | Although the butler had never said or intimated anything untoward , Michael had grown up with prejudice long enough to recognize it for what it was . |
| 6 | I unlocked the passenger door of the Transit for them but I thought it best not to open it for them or offer them a hand up and in . |
| 7 | Daft as it seems , we could have won it because the kick was produced too quick for Paul Simpson and we hit the ball later on , Mark Stein 's a little back header , very unlucky not to win it for us . |
| 8 | ‘ And you immediately scented a mystery and set out to solve it for yourself ! ’ said Sophie in a voice of triumph . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , sir , I would , and before you dismiss that story , I 'd like to take you out there to hear it for yourself . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My man will be there to record it for me . |
| 12 | Oh what ! up there to get it for you . |
| 13 | We can use the power of narrative to intrigue and draw children into the work at the same time as teaching them about narrative ; teaching them how to manipulate it for themselves . |
| 14 | He 'd have got someone else to write it for him . |
| 15 | She went towards the second door , and Michael hurried ahead to open it for her . |
| 16 | ‘ All it means is you ca n't sort yourself out and you are asking somebody else to do it for you . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Blackmail somebody else to do it for you . |
| 19 | ‘ We are quite capable of running our own piggy bank , without asking someone else to do it for us . ’ |