Example sentences of "[verb] to do something [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Er if but if you want to do something like that , to organise something , because if it goes on A five |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | What sort of girl she was , how she came to do something like this — ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I am going to do something about this child , she told herself . |
| 11 | If you 're going to do something like this , do it big . |
| 12 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 13 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Oh no , no , no , please , turn round I 'm going to do something in that slip . |
| 16 | And I 'd like to do something like that again . |
| 17 | I mean I 'd like to do something like that , but you could n't sell it |
| 18 | Oh well I 've got to do something with that anyway . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | we agreed to do something like six months ago . |
| 21 | ‘ A few people told me it could n't be done but the prep races all fitted into his programme and we would hope to do something along similar lines next time . |
| 22 | She smiled blankly when he confided darkly that he 'd have to do something about that . |
| 23 | ‘ The goalscoring situation is uppermost in our minds and we may have to do something about that . |
| 24 | The union itself , the members will also have to do something about this as well . |
| 25 | Oh dear , we 'll have to do something about this . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've always wanted to do something like that , ’ she confided to me . |
| 27 | Would you excuse me , Mr. Preston , while I try to do something about this ? ’ |
| 28 | extremely normal , because erm , I do n't think N M E interviewers would bother to do something like this . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're going to have to do something about this , ’ said Zeinab , looking up at him . |
| 30 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |