Example sentences of "something [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new era of greater awareness and understanding of the problems of the disabled accompanied by a willingness to do something about it had begun . |
| 2 | ‘ I must say I was not aware of all the problems the police have detailed and would have done something about it had they told me . ’ |
| 3 | You said something about it had a no you have n't shown me but you did tell me about it . |
| 4 | It depends really does , cos Joe said something about it depends if her boyfriend 's got any money to come up or something or |
| 5 | Her dress was in the high-waisted Empire style worn by almost all young women nowadays , but something about it seemed to Karelius , far from expert though he was , vaguely wrong . |
| 6 | This was a perpetual source of vexation to Mahmoud and his efforts to do something about it drove him towards reform at the political level — he was a member of the Nationalist Party — and perfectionism in his daily work . |
| 7 | Something about the words that I use , and the way that I deliver them , something about it strikes a low chord in his guts . |
| 8 | ‘ When I said it was a pity Connie died , you said something about it upsetting Muldoon and Cabrillo at first . |
| 9 | ‘ Something about it spoke to us . ’ |
| 10 | Strangely enough , something about it makes me feel rather unsafe ! ’ |
| 11 | It has been starved of funds , and leading politicians with the power to do something about it have done little or nothing , apparently content as long as the radio reported what they wanted it to report . |
| 12 | Well , in that case I 'm gon na do something about it love that Cos I ai n't having no dog there yapping all , a , while I 'm out there ! |
| 13 | ‘ Something about it going through the filtration of memory , I reckon . ’ |
| 14 | Something about it disturbed him — not the obvious facts of its shock and tragedy — but some discordant element , something that did n't ring true . |
| 15 | I had to study something of it to put the exhibition together . |
| 16 | Something behind it prevented it from fully opening and a dark , viscous substance that in the subdued light looked like a patch of oil was spreading from an invisible source and had begun soaking into the carpet . |
| 17 | So there must have been something in it to hold my attention for so long . |
| 18 | That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends . |
| 19 | Is the proliferation of training schemes and employment agencies merely a move a ) to reduce unemployment statistics b ) to make it seem that the government is doing something without it having to positively intervene economically in a massive problem ? |