Example sentences of "do nothing about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could do nothing about it . |
| 2 | Mr Monroe said the agency would do nothing about reports that investors in Texas and Arizona were buying apartments owned by failed thrifts before the 90-day period was up . |
| 3 | Ewan felt he could do nothing about this situation , and there was no use worrying about it . |
| 4 | Notice that the enzyme can do nothing about the difference , h , between the initial and final energy engineer can , by digging a tunnel , reduce the height to which one must climb to travel between them , but if there is a difference of altitude between the cities he can not alter it . |
| 5 | But even he could do nothing about a shot from Bishop which flashed past a group of players from the edge of the area but went the wrong side of the post and a header by Martin seconds from time which was cleared off the line . |
| 6 | He swore it all happened so quickly , he could do nothing about it . |
| 7 | Whatever it was , she could do nothing about it herself , since she had n't the remotest idea what went on under the bonnet of the Renault . |
| 8 | To have to lie there in his coffin on Ingham 's counter and hear somebody like Tommy Drennan murder a good song like ‘ Slievenamon ’ and himself lying there and could do nothing about it ! |
| 9 | Although such figures might create public alarm , the main reason given for non-reporting was because the offence was considered too trivial to waste police time ( 38 per cent of reasons given ) , or that the police could do nothing about it ( 16 per cent ) . |
| 10 | With me it was all too simple and evident , my behaviour — and I was a most law-abiding child — caused my parents pain , and as I could do nothing about it , certainly nothing to improve it , except to cease to exist , I grew more and more guilty . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | A DG could do nothing about this . |
| 13 | The Bristol University graduate , the third-choice keeper until last night , did not put a hand , or foot , wrong and he could do nothing about the Spartak goals . |
| 14 | There is no value in identifying a problem — even if it is a real one that matches the criteria given in 1 , 2 , and 3 — if you can do nothing about it . |
| 15 | Both have replied saying while they are sympathetic , they can do nothing about her situation . |
| 16 | ‘ You can do nothing about it . |
| 17 | The vacant abbacies remained vacant , and he could do nothing about them . |
| 18 | ‘ Flora , ’ Anna said , pushing her fringe off her forehead , ‘ I can do nothing about your flute . |
| 19 | Knowing that she turned the peeping Toms on with her performances — and that they could do nothing about it as they sat there , transfixed by her sex and her flagrant use of it . |
| 20 | This does not make it certain that the West will do nothing about other ethnic cleansers ; but it does raise the cleansers ' hopes . |
| 21 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 22 | Danjit 's hand unsealed the front of her suit in the shadow-hung warehouse in front of everybody and she could do nothing about it , but his lascivious toying with her breast and the perverted obscenities he whispered in his garlic-and-beer breath could n't make her feel terror now . |
| 23 | We can do nothing about this letter . |
| 24 | The fact that he could do nothing about it made Burun 's enjoyment of the situation all the sweeter . |
| 25 | Well , this is the thing , we have a caretaker but er fo for his services , but I 've been at the council and I have got nowhere , I have from the corporation , there 's an awful lot of people complaining but they 'll do nothing about it ! |
| 26 | Still , I 'm powerless , and can do nothing about anything . |
| 27 | He could n't do nothing about it ! ) |
| 28 | The Labour Party is a busted flush and can do nothing about it . |
| 29 | But the Government will do nothing about it . |
| 30 | Cos they s cos that 's compressed in , these barrels , and that was all done abroad and once these barrels broke , well you could n't do nothing about it but we never , they never , there was none of that wasted , never . |