Example sentences of "have nothing [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
| 2 | The cuckoo is what is known as a brood parasite — it lays its egg in the nest of a different , host , species of bird and then has nothing further to do with it . |
| 3 | ‘ Robbie has already beaten them in championship fights and owns a Lonsdale belt outright so he has nothing further to prove . |
| 4 | This has nothing directly to do with the overt sex drives of American footballers , or the claim of the early Hollywood starlet Clara Bow that she once ‘ entertained ’ the whole of the University of Southern California football team in rapid succession . |
| 5 | The action has nothing specifically to do with the technical content of the programmes but relates to wider difficulties between the Council of Ministers , the Commission and the European Parliament . |
| 6 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 7 | Because we 'd nothing else to do , I mean really . |
| 8 | I 've been thinking about this , sir — well , I 've had nothing else to think about . |
| 9 | They were concerned with variety of opinion , editorial freedom , partisan bias — values having nothing directly to do with economics and industry . |
| 10 | We simply had nothing else to say . |
| 11 | What you needed was a Gofer : someone who had nothing else to do but look after you and your team . |
| 12 | The lasses carded wool or span whenever they had nothing else to do , just as at home . |
| 13 | She probably had nothing else to do . |
| 14 | It was my decision , mainly because I had nothing else to do . |
| 15 | However , this did not suggest that they became pregnant by default or because they had nothing else to do , rather motherhood was a central focus of their lives ( Phoenix , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | I started taking smack at school , 'cos everyone in the — estate at that time was taking it and that was the only place you could buy pot and I sent one of me mates out from school one day to buy some speed and he come back with smack and said this is all I could get and I said I do n't want none of that , but in the end we ended up doing it because we was bored and we had nothing else to do . |
| 17 | This sub-committee had nothing else to do and the members carried out their task well : the delegates were all comfortable ! ( 6 ) Noting how the committee is proceeding is made more or less difficult according as the Chairman is less or more efficient . |
| 18 | and I played football in the street with the boys cos you had nothing else to do , you had nowhere else to go in my time ! |
| 19 | I had nothing else to do , so I just started pushing . |
| 20 | I insisted that Eric should take it seriously and , as he had nothing else to do , work hard at his grammar , because I knew that if he left the hospital knowing hardly any Italian he would surely be recaptured . |
| 21 | After checking for passports and air travel tickets we had nothing else to do but wait for our taxi . |
| 22 | The original purpose of the meeting — to discuss her discoveries in Oxford , and ask his advice on what to do next — had been overtaken by events , but she had nothing else to do that evening , and Tracey was usually good company . |
| 23 | Karelius had nothing else to go on , besides which he owed the Hapsburgs ' man something for saving his life . |
| 24 | Ooh you 'd think they had nothing else to spend their money on it , I think it 's silly , there 's enough words in the dictionary |
| 25 | The sight , the little bit of life and light in all the darkness , fascinated but had nothing else to tell them . |
| 26 | They were all bored out of their minds , had nothing else to think about except bed . |
| 27 | She had nothing else to offer them . |
| 28 | The Norwich Union told us it had nothing else to add . |
| 29 | I had nothing further to do with Sally but she did n't seem to be bothered when I passed her in the street without speaking . |
| 30 | He was only too conscious that he had nothing really to do : his hands strayed from time to time above his freckled face to adjust his headgear . |