Example sentences of "something do [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , we still had to get something done about our new procedures . |
| 2 | Gary , see when he wants something done to his car , he came to me , that 's where I was tonight |
| 3 | Breathing , no something to do about their physical appearance |
| 4 | Even officers in cars with mainsets can spend several hours without responding to a call and without finding something to do on their own account . |
| 5 | Size clearly has something to do with its effect , he wrote , but not size as reflection of ego . |
| 6 | Our choice of ‘ aware ’ , as a philosophically uncorrupted word which can help us to approach philosophical problems from a different angle , does have something to do with its recent currency in the valuations of ordinary discourse , as when someone is said to apply abstract principles without being aware of other people as persons , or to have lost by too exclusive concentration on the uses of things awareness of the colours of dawn and the scent of the flowers . |
| 7 | Possibly the West Saxon monarchy 's links with the new monasticism had something to do with its lack of popularity in northern Mercia and Northumbria . |
| 8 | He suggested instead that perhaps one of the two white men to see her alive last may have had something to do with her death . |
| 9 | Dot knew it was something to do with her father . |
| 10 | Perhaps her erotic dream had something to do with her condition . |
| 11 | The reason for her pent-up fury is not disclosed , though we rather suspect it may have something to do with her father 's preference for her sister . |
| 12 | Was she just covering it up because of something to do with her father , or had she banished it from her mind too ? |
| 13 | It might have had something to do with her illness , the eating disorder bulimia . |
| 14 | Something to do with her eyes and the way they looked at you , yet saw nothing . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , there has always been an undercurrent of concern that the correlation between the economic performance of Japan and Germany and their bank-based financing systems might be a causal one — in which case the UK 's poorer economic performance might have something to do with her market-based industrial financing system . |
| 16 | Something to do with her husband ? |
| 17 | Something to do with her desire to run things around her . |
| 18 | And I believed that the affair might have had something to do with her death . |
| 19 | Was it something to do with her father 's death ? |
| 20 | it also has something to do with her predominant yearning for an idyllic space which is similar to the yearning for a classical Golden Age . |
| 21 | When you spend a bit of time in her company you suspect it might have something to do with her outgoing nature and rare charm . |
| 22 | It was all something to do with their thinking he did n't have a proper job , so they said . |
| 23 | Perhaps the confidence of physicists noted by Becher ( forthcoming ) has something to do with their apparent irreducibility . |
| 24 | This was not really because of an absolute respect for truth but was something to do with their inhibited negative sense of style . |
| 25 | The mystery of this house had something to do with their great-grandfather , Augustus . |
| 26 | Yet I was reassured by the very vapidity of these doctors or joggers or bodybuilders , these vigour-experts — something to do with their unsmiling pursuit of the good life . |
| 27 | It was something to do with their hemlines , mused Lydia : something to do with the length and disposition of the bottoms of their skirts . |
| 28 | It 's meant to be something to do with their lips . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was something to do with our difference of opinion on the tee , I do n't know — but all through this championship Lee had never asked me to read a putt for him . |
| 30 | Anyway , it 's obviously something to do with your real family , and maybe your brother will have one the same . ’ |