Example sentences of "what [pron] [modal v] [verb] about [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know what I used to say about him at school ? |
| 2 | Have you any advice on what I can do about it ? |
| 3 | Charlie laughed when Tommy added , ‘ So we 'll ‘ ave to see what I can do about it . ’ |
| 4 | But she was unable to see what she could do about it . |
| 5 | See what 's going on , see what she can do about it . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's exactly what she used to say about you . |
| 7 | and she said as , well what she used to say about it was nobody 's business ! |
| 8 | What you can do about them is another matter which we shall deal with . |
| 9 | You can usually work out who is to blame and what you can do about it . |
| 10 | Of course , in these difficult circumstances you seek to keep order , but I ask you to reflect on one problem and to see what you can do about it . |
| 11 | But I do n't see what you can do about it . |
| 12 | I do n't know what you can do about it though because if people are that thick , there 's nothing much you can do about it is there ? |
| 13 | So you need to know if they 're stressed , and what you can do about it . |
| 14 | You know what you can do about it ! ’ |
| 15 | Well it is awful but I do n't know what you can do about it ! |
| 16 | When music turns up for review , you often listen to it two or three times while you wonder what you can say about it that is useful and informative , and then it makes its way to your shelves for ever . |
| 17 | After all , if you do lose it is usually all too obvious what you must do about it ! |
| 18 | That 's what you 'd think about it if you look at it as a piece of morphology , the shell shape — it turns out to be all one species with gene flow , hybridization right across the lot . |
| 19 | ‘ Have a look at the correspondence column , and tell me what we ought to do about it . ’ |
| 20 | And perhaps , what we can do about them ? |
| 21 | ‘ Then let us see what we can do about it . ’ |
| 22 | Cabinet under Mrs Thatcher is ‘ not used so much as a formal forum where there are papers saying we have this problem and here are the options for what we can do about it . |
| 23 | The Government wish to discuss neither where we are on the economy nor what we can do about it . |
| 24 | I , I think we can we can look at what we can do about it in the future and whether it is practical to erm consult local members where possible . |
| 25 | I , too , could have sat there like a fan watching an actress , like a lover watching his beloved , content not to be thinking about Mum and what we could do about her . |
| 26 | So far AMP executives are not sure where the Pearl is going wrong nor what they would do about it , other than perhaps improve the British group 's technology and have more centralisation of the selling operations . |
| 27 | It matters to the democracies because it is a battle about ideas they believe in , because it is on their doorstep , and because the rest of the world has been watching to see what they would do about it . |
| 28 | The Dysons did n't have to exhaust themselves wondering if they loved each other , and what they should do about it if they did n't . |
| 29 | A a at the time , they were trying to get this place looked at and surveyed , and everything to get it , you know to see what they could do about it , get it closed down , but er they had n't got that far with that then . |
| 30 | I 'm going to call those young fellows in again and see what they can do about it . ’ |