Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] do [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Somehow , though , and it was a complete mystery to her why , she felt an odd sort of reluctance to do anything of the kind .
2 It is inside in the sense of geography , its supposedly stable working-class past implying the moral obligation of society to do something about the fundamental causes of the problems .
3 Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen .
4 The zeal does not always survive the pedestrian management structures of local government , and perhaps it takes a more than ordinary enthusiasm to persist after the efforts of economizing councillors under pressure to do something about the rates .
5 The water authority responded with its case : ‘ We are up against a lot of pressure from landowners to do something about the flooding . ’
6 I do n't mean today I mean if she 's going in to London or something you know she 's got a base in London to do something in the morning before she goes on a call as opposed to some of them who have n't got a proper office space
7 It was a tremendous morale-booster for Michael to do something of the sort again , but I am sure none of the delegates at the conference knew of the pain he was in , nor how much discomfort he concealed behind his ready laugh .
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