Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure it was Jan egging him on that got him expelled from the Rainbow Crche . |
| 2 | ‘ I was sorry to see them striding along the walks at Tunbridge Wells with their arms akimbo , dressed in martial uniform , ’ wrote the authoress Elizabeth Montagu that spring of some fellow members of her sex . |
| 3 | Parents may jump to the conclusion that the fact of being adopted is the root of the trouble when that has nothing to do with the case . |
| 4 | That has nothing to do with the matter under debate . |
| 5 | ‘ Whether he does , or whether he does n't — I can assure you that that has nothing to do with the quality of my work ! ’ she hissed , barely able to remember a time when she had felt quite so angry . |
| 6 | That has something to do with the indefinable thing called talent . |
| 7 | That has something to do with the stress of constant innovation , and rather more with the fact that they and their work have been systematically devalued by a government determined to bring schools under political control . |
| 8 | And perhaps that has something to do with the very nature of an ex-patriate community . |
| 9 | It spent more than its SSA , but perhaps that has something to do with the marginally left-wing nature of the fire services union in our area . |
| 10 | I do not believe that that has anything to do with the Government . |
| 11 | This encourages them to listen to the responses and to each other . |
| 12 | This qualified her to play in the Scottish final at the new course at Westerwood , Cumbernauld . |
| 13 | Probably he knew only that Jehana objected to the idea of marrying Artai , and had been told that her family wished to avoid giving offence by rejecting the suit , and so were willing to see her contracted without the preliminary of a courtship . |
| 14 | This led him to focus on the top social stratum as the primary location of anomie , for it was power and not poverty that facilitated too easily the personal achievement of socially inculcated cultural ambitions . |
| 15 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 16 | Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that Lawrie Brown , the England physio , was once the Manchester United physio . |
| 17 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 18 | The second part of the mind is the parent — this has nothing to do with the child 's actual parents rather , it is to do with all the rules and prejudices that a child absorbs from its parents . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , a doctor or psychologist may sometimes reinforce parents ' concern by remarking , ‘ Well , of course , he 's adopted , ’ when this has nothing to do with the matter in question . |
| 20 | This has nothing to do with the chemicals all being derived from oil and coal ( see p 166 ) as is often suggested . |
| 21 | I went along to the surgery of Rother Valley MP Peter Hardy , who was resident in one of the safest Labour seats in the country , and despite all that had gone before he was able to say , ‘ This has nothing to do with the people around here — it all happens in London ’ . |
| 22 | The great , I mean , you 've a valid point and I think it 's due to the recession in America , I think we were disappointed were we not Bruce , that the results of our trip to er , New York State , and this has nothing to do with the enthusiasm of the business people we met there , everything to do , in my view , with the fact that the recession , and America 's been through a very tough recession , they just do n't look to expand elsewhere , but the reaction we had in , in er , in America was very , very powerful of , of a wish to want to do something when things look better . |
| 23 | He caught her wrist , bit out raggedly , ‘ This has nothing to do with the company ! |
| 24 | But this has nothing to do with the use of ministerial sanctions ; it largely reflects the use of RENFE ( as of other state enterprises ) by aspiring politicians as a springboard to ministerial or other high office . |
| 25 | None of this has anything to do with the Third Reading debate . |
| 26 | JEWKES is interested to know what happens in the bedroom . |
| 27 | Not that this stopped him going through the hoops for photographers when Forest got Nigel Mansell down to their ground the other week . |
| 28 | Whereas most Windows word processors allow you to import graphics onto the page , and some let you draw onto the page , WSWIN allows you to treat text — in any font you have available to you — as a graphic . |
| 29 | Another says I smell of the sea , like oysters , fresh and salty . ’ |
| 30 | This caused them to sink into the ground until the crossbar was only two inches above the grass . |