Example sentences of "doing something [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the proliferation of training schemes and employment agencies merely a move a ) to reduce unemployment statistics b ) to make it seem that the government is doing something without it having to positively intervene economically in a massive problem ? |
| 2 | Allen had been interested in the sack ; she had seen him stooping where the sack was hidden and he had been doing something with it . |
| 3 | Would you recommend that I got rid of some of it then by paying my poll tax or doing something with it or use the money to live off ? |
| 4 | And there are certain situations as if you ca n't have a photograph , in a sense , there 's no point in it , because it , in itself , it 's a rather dry little article , but if you can have a fun photograph with somebody doing something with it , that gives you another dimension , another possibility of a hook , another bit of scope for , for , for getting something into the media . |
| 5 | And I was in the depot and I and I was er trying to er get some money for , for this thing or , or doing something for it anyway , and this bloke said , said John , he said , what the bloody hell are you got interested in the people of Spain for ? |
| 6 | They 're doing it up , or doing something to it . |
| 7 | He wanted to know if I was interested in doing something on it in the magazine . |
| 8 | Identifying the environment as a major priority is one thing , doing something about it another . |
| 9 | The relevant comment I have heard most often at NCT meetings is that on-one minds a child displaying anti-social behaviour as long as we can see mum is doing something about it ! |
| 10 | Doing something about it early when the problems began to develop , rather than later , when they had become fully established . |
| 11 | At best , it provides a chance of doing something about it — repairing a bit of the past , perhaps finding a new way of handling difficult feelings and making them less dangerous . |
| 12 | Not only that , but 76% are actually doing something about it and gradually introducing more healthy foods into their diets . |
| 13 | In response to Mr Fothergill 's letter concerning Carlton amps , we enjoy being in the music business , and to us that means listening to what guitarists want and doing something about it . |
| 14 | Now , at last , we are doing something about it . |
| 15 | So start doing something about it . |
| 16 | If it is only our climate which would prevent an expanded leisure industry from being successful , we should surely look at ways of doing something about it . |
| 17 | It does mean , however , that we must consider human beings as conceptualising animals , reflecting on what is taking place to them and , furthermore , doing something about it . |
| 18 | Two presidents were elected on a platform of doing something about it . |
| 19 | He 's strong enough , he 's got a grudge , he 's doing something about it . |
| 20 | I am doing something about it , I am trying to get them to change their mind . |
| 21 | Now on the face of that that that that 's seems fairly sensible , y'know if somebody is in need we ought to be doing something about it . |
| 22 | But that 's exactly what 's happened and now fed up villagers are doing something about it . |
| 23 | There was a movement of crime towards the shire counties but we are doing something about it |
| 24 | It may also reflect a deep-seated concern in society that values are in decline , and that schools are the place to start doing something about it . |
| 25 | Well your , your little diagram shows that I really yes ought to be doing something about it , yeah . |
| 26 | About time they started doing something about it ! |
| 27 | Well at least they 're doing something about it |
| 28 | And just to actually formalise they 've laid out the plan to say that we are actually doing , we are aware that this does n't combine and we are doing something about it . |
| 29 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 30 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |