Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] about [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , there is little I can do about it . |
| 2 | As for your request — I 'm afraid you can forget about it . |
| 3 | ‘ Yeah , I worry about it , but there 's nothing much I can do about it . |
| 4 | but no I mean I i mean I 've lost a lot of good friends on it , and I would love to see them back alive but , there 's nothing much I can do about it . |
| 5 | Oh , I knew he was drinking , drinking heavily at that , but there was n't much I could do about it . |
| 6 | This time there was no mistaking the command , but , short of trying out one of the manoeuvres she had been learning in a regular martial arts class , there was n't much she could do about it . |
| 7 | When these things hit you there 's not much you can do about them . ’ |
| 8 | It can be very upsetting to have good shots spoiled in this way ; once the noise is on the tape there 's not much you can do about it except dub it out with a substitute background sound ( see page 80 ) . |
| 9 | But some children are just shy by nature and there 's not much you can do about it . |
| 10 | ‘ There is not much you can do about it . |
| 11 | I do n't know what you can do about it though because if people are that thick , there 's nothing much you can do about it is there ? |
| 12 | If you study a lot of subjects , they come to an end , there 's only so much you can learn about them . |
| 13 | Unfortunately there 's nothing much we can do about it . ’ |
| 14 | There was nothing very much we could do about it . |
| 15 | The other powers did n't like it — they wanted Britain to get out of Egypt — but so long as the fiction could be maintained that the British were there at the express request of the Egyptian sovereign , there was not much they could do about it . |
| 16 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 17 | My attitude to ageing is that it 's inevitable so there 's very little you can do about it . |
| 18 | She also had a strong suspicion that , despite his kisses , Silas was thoroughly annoyed with her , and , while it made her feel depressed , she felt there was little she could do about it . |
| 19 | She bit her lip over the length , but there was little she could do about it . |
| 20 | Should you find out there is probably little you could do about it anyway . |
| 21 | The sad thing is that there 's probably little we can do about it now . |
| 22 | ‘ In a recent match , we were kicked off the park by the opposition but there 's very little we can do about it . |
| 23 | Several local PPLs , who have to go to him , have complained about this exorbitantly high fee , but it seems that there is little we can do about it . |
| 24 | ‘ All I can say about them is that they were a real joy , ’ Bill Pertwee remembers . |
| 25 | Well , if they 're green , all I can say about us , that we must be cabbage-looking . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I was called over so Zoff could put some questions to Paul , they were about training and that 's all I can say about it . ’ |
| 27 | You are you are joking you know that 's all I can say about you . |
| 28 | And this is all I can write about it . |
| 29 | Er , and I think what you need to do , what we all need to do is when we 've discussed all this stuff , talked about it , and I 'm sure you 'll talk about it again tonight , that what we need to do is to recognize that this has to start on Monday . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyway , the police will have checked everyone 's movements very carefully and if Eddie had left her office during Tuesday afternoon I 'm sure they 'd know about it . ’ |