Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stars who were nothing to do with the film but stuck their necks out anyway included Sharon ( Basic Instinct ) Stone and Jason ( Beverly Hills 90210 ) Priestley . |
| 2 | She had known when she set eyes on them that they were nothing to do with the Smoke and nothing to do with the expedition that was preparing . |
| 3 | We were nothing to do with the prison camp or the escaped prisoners . |
| 4 | Were you to take after the Italians , you would use no more than oil and vinegar , added at the time you served the salad , even leaving each consumer to make up his or her own dressing . |
| 5 | So I think there are difficulties and I might er just finally add that were we to go along the lines he mentioned , we would of course need primary er legislation because we could n't introduce in orders under the relevant legislation this , so it would have to be a matter for another day , were we to er consider that seriously , but it is not the intention of the government . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , but how were we to know about the crash ? |
| 7 | How else were they to account for the martyrdom of Tel al-Za'atar , the huge Palestinian camp under siege in east Beirut ? |
| 8 | They took out large orders of tea and coffee on cardboard trays , and after wondering for a while if they were anything to do with the film business Lucy finally decided that every last one of them was probably either a builder or a shopfitter . |
| 9 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |
| 10 | Talking to my sister on the phone about the visit she insisted that the feeling of being absent in my mother 's presence was nothing to do with the illness , was the emotional underpinning of our childhood . |
| 11 | It was nothing to do with the Change . |
| 12 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 13 | Something had gone wrong between him and Suzi that was nothing to do with the theatre . |
| 14 | So the bankruptcy of the original supplier was nothing to do with the delay or actually going for another supplier ? |
| 15 | ‘ Then the nom de guerre was nothing to do with the Disappeareds ? ’ |
| 16 | It was nothing to do with the castle . |
| 17 | I had a nasty little feeling in my inside that was nothing to do with the sauna . |
| 18 | It was nothing to do with the record industry , or entertainment of any sort , and thus a radical departure from the Virgin principle of expanding into related fields . |
| 19 | I could not get into a routine because there was nothing to get into a routine with ! |
| 20 | His men stopped being paid , and there was nothing to buy with the money they had . |
| 21 | And Ah had a word on the phone with a Cambridge don they put me on to — he was somethin' to dae with the Scott Polar Institute , and he confirmed that supply aircraft would not normally be overflying the area we 're interested in . ’ |
| 22 | But how was she to get through the rest of the evening ? |
| 23 | He knew they were at boarding-schools , but it was something to say to the kids . |
| 24 | Maybe it was something to do with a divorce from reality . |
| 25 | All this was something to do with the manuscript . |
| 26 | It was something to do with the year of the Prophet 's birth , or the year in which he had gone to or come from Mecca or Medina , but Robert could never remember which . |
| 27 | Beauty , I thought , was something to do with the way a face betrayed character . |
| 28 | Presumably it was something to do with the way that Jenner approached his work . |
| 29 | Harold , through to the first quarter-final of his professional career , said : ‘ This is obviously my best ever win , and while Stephen did n't play well I like to think it was something to do with the way I played . ’ |
| 30 | On reflection she believed it was something to do with the way she looked — her casual dress . |