Example sentences of "do anything [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was a pity that Greg Lewin was interviewed by somebody only knowledgeable about corncrakes ; it would have been interesting to know whether Greg has done anything about the diabolical fingering needed on the ancient form of the racket . |
| 2 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 3 | She had never convinced herself of the reality of her pregnancy , she had never done anything about it . |
| 4 | ‘ See if she 's put the fire out and done anything about that Martello tower holiday . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I rather hope I may get those concerned to invite me to do you in the Authors and their Work series — though I have n't done anything about it — I might then like to quote a bit or two out of a letter ( e.g. about Ivy ) , but I devoutly hope you will be able to censor the thing for yourself ’ — for there was still hope , or I was allowed to think so . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Look at how many times Kraftwerk have been sampled and they 've never done anything about it . |
| 8 | Mrs Bennett would have a fit if she knew Celia had gone up to Beckwith 's Folly , but it was n't the first time lately that she had been overwhelmed by the desire to escape , although it was the first time she had actually done anything about it . |
| 9 | I did n't think we 'd done anything about that this year . |
| 10 | Erm Wh have we done anything about the environmental charter ? |
| 11 | The government has not done anything about smoking . |
| 12 | And leave more for the others Have you done anything about gas volumes ? |
| 13 | ‘ Have n't you done anything about it ? ’ |
| 14 | I have n't done anything about supper . |
| 15 | We have n't done anything about this . |
| 16 | How could she have known , I thought , and not done anything about it ? |
| 17 | Right , I have n't done anything about the |
| 18 | You must think I 'm absolutely barking just to have been sat with this in front of me and not done anything about it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Somebody in authority would have known that he was married though , but , probably not anybody who could have done anything about preventing another one . |
| 21 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 22 | Yes we 've never done anything about inviting |
| 23 | I have n't done anything about that . |
| 24 | I had it for weeks and nobody done anything about it . |
| 25 | Done anything about a Christmas presents yet Jack ? |
| 26 | And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it , |
| 27 | But since then nobody 's done anything about it . |
| 28 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ thinkers , on the other hand , tend to perceive child care matters in personal rather than political terms and are more inclined to the views expressed or implied in the following comments by respondents from this group : ‘ you could never have done anything with this poor mother ’ , and : |
| 29 | But because they 're essentially a sort of er a noisy and spectacle spectacle thing , erm that 's why I have n't done anything with regard |
| 30 | Cos I have n't done anything with it , cos you said you 'd send it him , and I could n't decide whether I was supposed to send it ahead or he was . |