Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] about [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ears are burning in the cold , but there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ It 's a dreadful thought , but there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 3 | And the worse thing is that now there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 4 | Self-preservation , replies Kate the British Committee librarian feebly , I ca n't afford a breakdown , this is me for the moment , there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 5 | Being only 5′ 2½″ tall myself I too feel very strongly about the unfairness of this , but there is absolutely nothing I can do about it except to warn you that in these circumstances you do need to be very accurate in counting calories in order to achieve a good rate of weight loss . |
| 6 | But if somebody decides differently , there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , there is little I can do about it . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , I worry about it , but there 's nothing much I can do about it . |
| 9 | There 's nothing I can do about it . ’ |
| 10 | " If because of this the kingdom of God is closed to me , there is nothing I can do about it , for I ca n't return these things . |
| 11 | ‘ But there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 12 | Have you any advice on what I can do about it ? |
| 13 | ‘ And there 's nothing I can do about it . ’ |
| 14 | but no I mean I i mean I 've lost a lot of good friends on it , and I would love to see them back alive but , there 's nothing much I can do about it . |
| 15 | But there 's nothing I can do about it , as the two of them , stomping and shouting ‘ Hey ! ’ , run through a repertoire of leaps , kicks and contortions . |
| 16 | Unless I know about it there 's nothing I can do about it is there ? |
| 17 | ‘ But he 's back and he 's working at OBEX and there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 18 | ‘ I know who the kids are but there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 19 | Charlie laughed when Tommy added , ‘ So we 'll ‘ ave to see what I can do about it . ’ |
| 20 | feel like I 've accepted it , I 've come to terms with it , there 's nothing I can do about it |
| 21 | My husband dies in a car crash with his mistress and you think I can forget about it ? ’ |
| 22 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 23 | That I can talk about it ? |
| 24 | ( a ) ‘ If I can talk about it today , then I 'll be able to get on with the project — if I ca n't , the project is going to have to be delayed . |
| 25 | ‘ I can talk about it and everything . |
| 26 | I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow . |
| 27 | Well , erm , I was just trying to do it , do it , do the example four , whilst I was here , so that if I have a problem , I , I can ask about it before I go on to example five . |
| 28 | And this is all I can write about it . |
| 29 | ‘ All I can say about them is that they were a real joy , ’ Bill Pertwee remembers . |
| 30 | Well , if they 're green , all I can say about us , that we must be cabbage-looking . |