Example sentences of "[verb] do [pron] about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now incumbent on everybody looking after patients following a myocardial infarct to try to reason out what caused the condition and to try to do something about stopping it . |
| 2 | Uncharitably , you might say they were middle-class people who have long since sold out and ceased to do anything about changing the world short of creating more personal angst for themselves . |
| 3 | Somebody in authority would have known that he was married though , but , probably not anybody who could have done anything about preventing another one . |
| 4 | But her own perspective was different : Durance had told Joseph that Leary was living nearby but Joseph had done nothing about contacting his old friend until he needed an alibi for the night of the murder . |
| 5 | In 1977 ( more or less as in 1969 ) only 12 per cent had considered this , and only a very small proportion of these had done anything about trying to get some type of credit not actually used in the end by them . |
| 6 | I said well I think she realized it came to so he 's definitely booked the high court so she 's , she 's done nothing about changing him or anything like that . |