Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [to-vb] [indef pn] about it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to do something about it . ’ |
| 2 | You thought British art had been ‘ needlessly neglected and undervalued and that somebody ought to do something about it ’ . |
| 3 | Yes , I think we ought to do something about it Tony , a message . |
| 4 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
| 5 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |