Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] something about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kapuscinski generalises : ‘ the degree of consciousness that drives one to demand justice or do something about obtaining it has n't yet been reached . ’ |
| 2 | But there could be more trouble if the king does not open up the political system or do something about the great disparities of wealth . |
| 3 | ‘ Wheeler certainly knew or suspected something about candles since he 's been questioning Williams about them , ’ said Ian , recalling his unsatisfactory conversation with the Verger . |
| 4 | The conception does not have to do , above all , with the statement 's having some otherwise specified content or subject-matter : that is , say , as being about thoughts , wants , or intentions , or conveying something about persons , minds , subjectivity , experience , or an inner world . |
| 5 | so that says something about specialization of production possibly , that countries are now more highly specialized than they once were . |
| 6 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 7 | So you did n't have a letter there and then and asked something about was it put into writing . |
| 8 | The conductor would smile , give us a pat on the head , and say something about ‘ nice looking kids ’ . |
| 9 | It follows that , in offering a view of the cultural characteristics of higher education , we must also keep an eye on the wider culture and say something about their interconnections . |
| 10 | Do you have any indication of its source , and say something about the background of people . |
| 11 | I did n't want to hurt their feelings , having been brought up to be polite , so I tried to look happy and muttered something about Helen playing the piano very well . |
| 12 | He seemed taken aback , and muttered something about having business in Germany . |
| 13 | Each dance should arise naturally from the context and reveal something about one or another or all the characters in reaction to a series of situations . |
| 14 | And to cover up the dreadfulness of the moment , the pain of the knowledge that Rachel had become old , alone , and friendless , she had giggled and said something about having lost her key . |
| 15 | There were anonymous letters to my parents , postmarked Chippenham , Corsham , Bath and London , telling them to watch out and do something about their son or there would be trouble for them . |
| 16 | These people may need to get married — trapped — to prove that they can get out , that divorce is not impossible , to discover that they can influence and do something about the situation . |
| 17 | In the end I decided to try and do something about it . |
| 18 | Once he was on the mend , we decided to try and do something about his crooked leg . |
| 19 | The singular virtue of action-research is that things could not be left at that — it was necessary to go on and do something about it all . |
| 20 | We know , even those of us who are still smoking know what the , what the problems are , let's get on and do something about it ! |
| 21 | She was a wreck and had planned to go and do something about it once dinner had been prepared , but now that would have to go by the board — there would be no time — and , besides , she could hardly appear to Luke 's business partner and his wife in one of Luke 's towelling robes , could she ? |
| 22 | Are you going to come and do something about it or not ? ’ |
| 23 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 24 | These people want something satisfying , so you will try and do something about it wo n't you ? |
| 25 | These people want something satisfying , so you will try and do something about it wo n't you ? |
| 26 | And it 's no good moaning , so has to go and do something about it , |
| 27 | We ca n't just ignore it erm it is proper planning to try and do something about it . |
| 28 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 29 | On the following evening [ 11 July 1962 ] , as a meeting of the Committee of the Cabinet was ending , Macmillan took me aside and said ‘ The Government is breaking up ’ , and murmured something about ‘ You do n't mind going ? ’ |
| 30 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |