Example sentences of "[verb] to do [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 2 | We 'll need to do something about that . |
| 3 | Now we 're planning to do a , we do n't wan na do another budget , re-budget forecast until June July , we , cos it , we do n't need to do one for this bu any budget year starting July , we 're gon na work on the calendar year . |
| 4 | Right so I do n't need to do anything for that ? |
| 5 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman will ask his constituents to remember that if they want to do something about that matter there is one answer — to buy the best food that there is , and that is British produced . |
| 6 | Okay , what does it mean in terms of the number line ? the number line there , and we want to do something like two add three , what does that mean ? |
| 7 | Er if but if you want to do something like that , to organise something , because if it goes on A five |
| 8 | ‘ Frankly , it does n't appear to do anything at all , but the other two call it the Senior Partner . ’ |
| 9 | John tells me , by the way , that the response to his trolleybus venture has been so great that he now plans to do something along similar lines , as you might say , with the railways . |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats ' defence spokesman , Menzies Campbell , said later that the president 's proposals were a gimmick and ‘ smacked of being seen to do something without serious understanding of its effectiveness ’ . |
| 11 | The ruling group , the labour party , refuses to do anything about this at all . |
| 12 | What sort of girl she was , how she came to do something like this — ’ |
| 13 | We were very open to a range of ideas from big to little ; the mother of a mentally-handicapped child wrote in wanting to do something for mentally-handicapped children , and she had got an idea about setting it in the production office of a children 's comic . |
| 14 | God in heaven , he seemed to do nothing on this job but envy Boxer and his easy role . |
| 15 | manual worker — prepared to do anything at any time at very short notice regardless of what is in the oven ; |
| 16 | I am going to do something about this child , she told herself . |
| 17 | If you 're going to do something like this , do it big . |
| 18 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 19 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 20 | We talk later on , sort of thing when I say do nothing , you 're going to do something in that bit , but as far as you 're concerned it 's idle time . |
| 21 | Oh no , no , no , please , turn round I 'm going to do something in that slip . |
| 22 | Yes , well Bev was asking , I mean I was doing housework , oh , I was doing bits and pieces you know , and er getting me coat and all that and er she was asking questions and all that and Liz said I 'll pick you up at twenty past eleven , so Bev said alright then , so she come off the phone said she 'd go and have a look and apparently erm , it must of been yesterday if , if Liz is telling the truth she said to whoever are you going to do anything about this ? |
| 23 | Cuddle it right , it 's wrapped up in about six layers of erm whatever , are you just going to pick it up and cuddle it or are you going to do anything with all those layers ? |
| 24 | Nobody had ever dared to do anything like that before . |
| 25 | And I 'd like to do something like that again . |
| 26 | I mean I 'd like to do something like that , but you could n't sell it |
| 27 | Oh well I 've got to do something with that anyway . |
| 28 | So that , we 've got , there you 've got to do lots of different concrete and excavation , slightly different thing , here you 've got to do lots and lots of these . |
| 29 | ‘ Look , I have n't got to do anything by two o'clock except get Liam out . |
| 30 | The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him . |