That means you can give someone advice but you cannot force him to do something he does not want to do.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Then, he finished a study program in non-profit management because he wanted to do something different with his life.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

But the pictures did. What the camera showed was so powerful that the city's health officials started to do something.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

After the terrorist attacks against the United States in two thousand one he decided to do something different.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

That means to be nervous about having to do something, like speaking in front of a crowd.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

She decided to do something special with her life after she was successfully treated for cancer.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

He said he was busy taking pictures when he suddenly had to do something else.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Mr.Powell says financial incentives like these can get employees to do something once or twice.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

Government leaders knew they had to do something to prevent such floods in the future.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

The expression means being afraid to do something you had decided to do.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

If a friend keeps asking you to do something you do not want to do, you might ask him to leave you alone or "stop bugging me."

VOA: special.2009.06.28

They use their natural sense to do something instead of their learned knowledge.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

A friend also might tell you again and again to do something.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

They say Charlie Brown has failed again to do something right.

VOA: special.2009.10.25