Example sentences of "[prep] doing [pron] about " in BNC.

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1 At best , it provides a chance of doing something about it — repairing a bit of the past , perhaps finding a new way of handling difficult feelings and making them less dangerous .
2 If they can overcome their fears , they have a chance of doing something about their mutual problem , now explicit between them .
3 If it is only our climate which would prevent an expanded leisure industry from being successful , we should surely look at ways of doing something about it .
4 Two presidents were elected on a platform of doing something about it .
5 Not another two years , I think that was the first of January ninety five , it 's actually one year , and it 's not a question of doing nothing about it .
6 If he heard anything he would not dream of doing anything about it but would go on gazing indifferently over the heads of his sheep .
7 He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort .
8 He believes the Irish Government has no intention of doing anything about Articles 2 and 3 .
9 He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort .
10 [ It was ] just exercises in following instructions … you 'd end up doing a lab before you ended up doing anything about it in lectures .
11 Or we can think about doing something about
12 In the last resort , self-awareness requires the personal acceptance that responsibility for doing something about feelings or circumstances is a personal one , which can not be effectively decided by other people .
13 Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates .
14 Weakness kept him confined to his room most of the time and an overwhelming sense of guilt , remorse and failure prevented him from doing anything about writing to Liza .
15 It may be that you think my association with a certain person will prevent me from doing anything about Geoffrey .
16 He said a small group of people who were interested in doing something about the issue would be interested to hear from people who had views or experiences on the subject .
17 I LET the 'phone ring for about ten minutes before doing anything about it .
18 With this in mind er , this morning I 've written to George , the trade union secretary of the Civil Engineering Conciliation Board , the negotiating machine and suggested to him that he contacts the employers to seek a further meeting to see if we can restart the talks based on doing something about the longstanding commitment by both sides of the industry to have a positive and sensible pay structure for the future this may be one way forward , one way out of the deadlock .
19 We may want to make the point that if we are to be committed to doing something about the global warming of the ozone layer then we will need to say when we will do it by .
20 I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it .
21 But if you 're prepared to learn how to do the wiring and to do the ‘ building ’ work ( and redecorating ) involved , it 's not difficult to improve the lighting arrangements in your home by fitting new permanent lights , and by doing something about the switching set-up .
22 To say , as some have , that the world has stood by doing nothing about Yugoslavia is thus simply silly .
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