Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told you , it 's nothing to do with you any more , Kokos . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , it 's nothing to do with my single Portuguese ancestor , I 'm ashamed to say , ’ she explained . |
| 3 | Nor is it to sympathise with his asthmatic , Baptist bullied childhood , which forms the staple of so many of his surreal sing-song comic monologues of victimisation , paranoia and infantile revenge . |
| 4 | Is then an MP , who must keep the hours of a street-walker ; who is understood to be — if the public is to be believed — either impotent or corrupt ; who spends the best years of his life listening to Ministers , speeches , and to the complaints of his constituents ; is he to receive as his only reward after twenty years of service a signed photograph of Jim Prior ? |
| 5 | Because I have it , whether it 's anything to do with my aristocratic ancestors or the fact that I was brought up properly in the old-fashioned way to respect integrity and honesty and decency . |