Example sentences of "[adv] do something [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He said : ‘ This would force Langbaurgh Council and Northumbrian Water to get together to do something about the terrible sewage problems there . ’
2 I 'm just doing something at the moment
3 Todd Nielson became a medical researcher , and finally did something about the ageing process .
4 and it would also enable you to quickly and easily do something on the erm on the , on the private functions night to make it look different .
5 It also did something to the plumbing , and it was decided not to keep us for the month we had been promised , but to billet us out to houses nearby .
6 The other day when we had a very hot day , it was quite a hot day and over mid day I went out to do something in the garden there and her milk was still on the step and it was in the sun .
7 He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire .
8 The north should stop tut-tutting about juridical lapses or dictatorial ways and instead do something about the low commodity prices and the debt burdens that make the poor even poorer .
9 And I think that if people who are still smoking , and I think nearly every smoker is unhappy with their habit , if they will remember that and think that they can actually do something for the next generation , it 's not their fault , there are people out there , there are forces out there who are forced them to start smoking and who are trying to get the generation to start .
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