Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , maids in black took coats for tickets , and told everyone to go through the lounge as Mrs Coley was receiving in the pool area . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The hidden costs of being in hospital — lost income , the cost of employing someone to look after the children , the cost of having someone to look after the home if your partner works , even your partner 's lost income — can soon add up to become a severe financial burden during an already difficult time . |
| 4 | No doubt there were minions in plenty to see to the plane and Maggie noted that his sister had not come rushing to meet him in the car . |
| 5 | Now listen , I want nobody to come over the step because you 're trailing these covers and you 'll get them wet , so inside ! |
| 6 | As far as I can recall it was further away from the wall , there was a space for somebody to walk between the wall and the bed , it 's not as shown in that photograph . |
| 7 | The council said it would cost £10 to send somebody to look at the wall and then I 'd have to pay to have it repaired . |
| 8 | The 18th-century mountain traveller John Macculloch described Sutherlands as containing ‘ mountains which seem as if they had tumbled from the clouds , having nothing to do with the country or each other . ’ |
| 9 | It had had nothing to do with the past and everything to do with him wanting to oust her from her home . |
| 10 | The difference has nothing to do with the presence or absence of powerchords . |
| 11 | Yet I think there is a difference between the control of living systems and the stability of physical ones , which has nothing to do with the presence or absence of a controlling intelligence . |
| 12 | ‘ I would have nothing to do with the Prince or his catamite ! ’ |
| 13 | Now it 's nothing to do with the day or the time or the months or the week or anything like that . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In 1827 , for reasons which had nothing to do with the success or failure of the enterprise , the land-owner sold the estate and the community was dispersed . |
| 16 | So the bankruptcy of the original supplier was nothing to do with the delay or actually going for another supplier ? |
| 17 | Mr Sjogren repeated that his client insisted he had nothing to do with the explosion that brought down PanAm 103 . |
| 18 | I had nothing to do with the recording and creative side but I changed guitar strings and that kind of thing . |
| 19 | I 'm sorry for the five minute delay most of you , I had to seek out about a administrative matter , an administrative matter , nothing to do with the evidence or the place for Mr you had told us earlier in the week about several situations , as the management company . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Questioned , Barron had refused to talk to anyone junior to Wickham and even when Wickham went to his hotel he had little to say except that he had met MacQuillan on private business , that it had nothing to do with the murder and was of no interest to the police . |
| 22 | It will have nothing to do with the lecture but simply to impress those that my vocabulary is very wide . |
| 23 | If it 's some notion of individuation which has nothing to do with the body , nothing to do with the soul and nothing to do , ultimately , with the intellect either . |
| 24 | He knew that the embarrassment had nothing to do with the fear that he would question , criticize , move like a spy among them . |
| 25 | I suppose all this henthusiasm has nothing to do with the fact that he 's a very handsome young man , has it ? ’ |
| 26 | It 's got nothing to do with the fact that he got bent out of shape at an early age and has been shaping laughs out of the kinks ever since . |
| 27 | Of course this rant has nothing to do with the fact that the Fat DOS team recently took its first flight in a F15 and Strike Eagle . |
| 28 | It had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton 's hard-won road to the top just proved to her how ruthless he must have been to have attained his ultimate goal . |
| 29 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 30 | ‘ I just wish I could be sure that your chosen career had nothing to do with the fact that it was mine ! ’ |