Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] do [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I would n't give for Jim to do something like this — just occasionally . |
| 2 | We of course did it in nineteen eighty six , er but this year there are about fifteen hundred officers involved from fifteen different police forces . |
| 3 | I mean it was one thing standing up in front of my own group and giving a lecture , but it was quite another kettle of kippers doing it in front of a strange class . |
| 4 | I mean I know through the summer holidays that I 've really got to get to work with him on his maths , likewise I know I 've got a lot of work to do myself for |
| 5 | Somehow , though , and it was a complete mystery to her why , she felt an odd sort of reluctance to do anything of the kind . |
| 6 | The WES has a network of proselytisers doing something about that , explaining what an engineer is to schoolgirls . |
| 7 | Treatment directed specially towards either stopping or reducing drinking on a long-term basis is very often thwarted by a patient 's denial of the extent of the problem or by lack of motivation to do anything about it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is time that the Secretary of State did something about that . |
| 10 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 11 | ‘ I was horrified so I joined an organisation with a bit of clout to do something about it . |
| 12 | She flew up the drive and suddenly she saw Miss Honey in the front garden , standing in the middle of a bed of roses doing something with a pair of clippers . |
| 13 | Erm and then y you know you get your cash and three months from twenty second of June to do something about it . |
| 14 | " You 'll probably have plenty of time to do something about your trouble anyway , " he said to Willis , " it 's quite a long business , arranging the sale of these boats . |
| 15 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 16 | ‘ Pressure should be put on the Secretary of State for Transport to do something about this . ’ |
| 17 | Well you could , like Sharon did it on EastEnders at the side just long there and |
| 18 | The best example of this was the way in which she stung the Government into action to do something about AIDS . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 's no good just waiting for people to do something for you . |
| 21 | These are all suggestions I 've been given , but most of them are too vague for people to do anything with . |
| 22 | ‘ Now , the white people who own the plantations are much too lazy to do the work themselves and that is why they buy black slaves from Africa to do it for them . |
| 23 | The water authority responded with its case : ‘ We are up against a lot of pressure from landowners to do something about the flooding . ’ |
| 24 | The providers of training ended up playing the government 's games and giving it credibility when it was in reality doing nothing in a serious situation . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | And is is not a fact that in fact the Killinghall bypass and the Ripon bypass , in fact does nothing to in fact i er alleviate those particular problems over about a seven mile stretch . |
| 27 | The Secretary of State is anxious to concentrate on rebates to do something for those who will by hit be the property tax , but the Minister has scorned property taxes and is determined to weight the tax in favour of the better-off . |
| 28 | In Darcy 's Utopia each man will attempt to read the mind of God and not rely on others to do it for him . |
| 29 | One could n't rely on Canaris to do anything about it . |
| 30 | ‘ What on earth do you with a baby all day ? ’ asked a friend when he became a dad for the first time . |