Example sentences of "[adv] do [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd better do something about supper . ’ |
| 2 | Better do something about it , had n't we ? " |
| 3 | I 'd better do something about improving it . |
| 4 | ‘ Now you better do something about it , and fast . |
| 5 | " Yes , we 'd better do something about that . " |
| 6 | You better do something about his hook , bend it round else |
| 7 | Or did you now recognize something you need n't of got but now somebody else has bought you that you better do something about it ? |
| 8 | I mean , music 's a great channel for releasing your emotions but if you 're really that unhappy why do n't you just do something about your life ? |
| 9 | Future generations of composers will damn our spinelessness if we do not do something about this proposal , and they will be right . |
| 10 | But … if , as they say , this is all in the mind , ie it is all down to your guilty conscience — excuse the expression — why not do something about it ? |
| 11 | You can not do anything about it . |
| 12 | If a policeman observes you doing that he can not do anything about it because we have no law which makes it illegal to be deliberately cruel to a wild animal . |
| 13 | We can not do anything about domestic events now , but certainly we would be keen to shown them . |
| 14 | ‘ Unfortunately , we can not do anything about it . |
| 15 | Earlier , a care worker told the jury about the girl 's absences from the home : ‘ Unfortunately , we can not do anything about it . |
| 16 | It might have been said that since one representative was absent they could not do anything about it , but the fact of the matter is they plainly had come to their decision the day before . |
| 17 | She and David could not do anything about it , of course , but it was wonderful . |
| 18 | If the government is locked into a policy of expanding the money supply at some pre-announced rate it can not do anything about this possibly severe recession . |
| 19 | The idea that one can not do anything about unemployment is the real gospel of despair . |
| 20 | Therefore , although we welcome legislation that deals with the serious issues , and although we have promised to consider it carefully in Committee , we can not do anything about the crime figures . |
| 21 | I 'm left , according to the glass people , with a damaged windscreen and can not do anything about it . |
| 22 | EMBARRASSED body-odour sufferers often can not do anything about their personal freshness problem , researchers announced today . |
| 23 | Even though Carrie 's mother suspected something was different with her child , she was too caught up in her own religious world , that she did not do anything about Carrie 's obvious talent . |
| 24 | Scientists contend that the principles of natural law that govern our universe can not be turned aside , you can not ignore them , they are fixed , they are great things that , that you can not alter God can not do anything about them . |
| 25 | If I have n't the slightest idea what the hell I 'm being nagged about , how the hell can I possibly do anything about it ? |
| 26 | The idea of boredom is not very distressing to us because if we are bored we can usually do something about it , and so can a horse in the wild . |
| 27 | And they are something that they could probably do something about . |
| 28 | Can we really do nothing about it , just because they seem to have taken one of our slogans , one of our demands and twisted it ? |
| 29 | Will he now do something about it by calling a general election and making way for a Labour Government committed to ridding this country of the Tory scourge of homelessness ? |
| 30 | ‘ That 's why human rights violations , even those by Idi Amin in Uganda , have been such embarrassments , because you ca n't legally do anything about them in international law , ’ Prof Wilkinson says . |