Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] it [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his junior staff loyally taking the blame and trying to pretend he knew nothing about it ( despite his signature on the 17 January presidential order ) , Reagan began to believe he had known nothing about it and it is possible that he did not know what he was signing . |
| 2 | Polly decided to do something about it before it smothered her . |
| 3 | Be pro-active and do something about it before it is mentioned . |
| 4 | If I 'd seen what was happening , had n't been quite so involved in my work , I could have done something about it before it was too late . ’ |
| 5 | The city could act , the city could do something about it but it wo n't . |
| 6 | Would n't you want to do something about it if it happened to one of your friends ? ’ |
| 7 | I should be able to do something about it and it was a depressing thought that I was getting nowhere . |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't put an empty box in a safe ; there must have been something in it when it was put there and the lavender sachet makes me think it must have been something of sentimental value . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Every generation of the Gontaut-Biron family added something to it since it began in the twelfth century . |
| 10 | There 's probably nothing in it and it would be dreadful to cast suspicion on an innocent person . ’ |
| 11 | Well , I suppose it is constructive in a way , but you never really see anything for it and it 's all routine . |
| 12 | I mean it was n't done , and nobody knew about it , and no one said anything about it but it was . |
| 13 | If someone very close ( a member of your family , for instance ) were to come into the room while you were in that state , you would be aware of it but you probably would not move or do anything about it because it felt ‘ right ’ . |
| 14 | When I 've finished this book and it 's published , I 'll give you one he said you wo n't understand anything about it because it 's all about electronics and electricities but he said never mind and , and he did and it 's up on that shelf , er I 've still got it . |
| 15 | The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems . |
| 16 | Well it was something that you hear a lot about it and er I 've never done anything about it and it 's cos I 'm starting to think towards the future and it 's gon na be nice to know that I 'm gon na have a pound or two to go and do what I want when I retire . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , we will not see anything of it since it happens in our daytime . |