Example sentences of "had [pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stressed that it accepted that Black had nothing to do with the stolen goods or weapons found at the cottage . |
| 2 | I had nothing to do with the financial side of the firm , and big output does not necessarily mean big profit . ’ |
| 3 | As we shall see , mystical teachers tirelessly proclaimed that visions and voices were not an essential part of the mystical journey and could in fact be a distraction ; the mystical apprehension of God certainly had nothing to do with the ordinary emotions . |
| 4 | Certainly her main reason for accepting the post had nothing to do with the actual work involved , but the hope that closer acquaintance with him might throw some light on Elise 's baffling death . |
| 5 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 6 | This had nothing to do with the European Social Charter , which proposes to enshrine similar rights , he said . |
| 7 | God , I thought unkindly , had nothing to do with the simple foresight of bringing a water-bottle on a desert outing . |
| 8 | All three teachers were adamant that despite the lack of time for consultation , the lack of space and resources and other problems that had nothing to do with the curricular rationale behind the project , it had been a great success . |
| 9 | It had nothing to do with the soft , seemingly defenceless girl lying in his arms . |
| 10 | Officials said the accident , caused by sparks igniting leaking hydrogen , had nothing to do with the nuclear process at the Zaporizha plant , which is Europe 's largest . |
| 11 | His body was washed in silver by the moonlight and when he removed his shirt she felt a tiny shiver of something that had nothing to do with the pervasive cold of the night air on her chilled skin . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't like you , either , ’ he admitted , and they both knew that liking had nothing to do with the seething emotions aroused every time they touched or came close . |
| 13 | The wedding between the two young gipsies was a moving ceremony , although Christian 's lengthy sermon had everyone fidgeting on the hard bench seats before it was ended . |
| 14 | I had them processed at the one-hour place , cost me a fortune but … |
| 15 | Curiously it was the less forward-looking G major Sonata which in the faster figuration of its flanking movements once or twice had me longing for the greater clarity of a modern grand — likewise its greater ability to sing in the slow movement . |
| 16 | Well I worked there and then er quite a bit I had to w they had me working on the main road . |
| 17 | How many times had I prayed for the impossible ? |
| 18 | the only erm problem I had I think with the basic er terms as outlined in this document are the fact that I 'm going to be wor erm intending to work for fif at least fifty of the fifty two weeks in the year at it when of course erm certainly as we 'd already agreed on my erm business plan within the summer month from the the end of July until the beginning of September |
| 19 | And Colin had his done about the same time . |
| 20 | ‘ Would it be enough if you had someone to hold during the long , cold nights ? ’ |
| 21 | Former Quins centre Ron Eriksson had plenty to celebrate with the only try in London Scottish 's 8-3 win over a rebuilt Gloucester side . |
| 22 | Liam complained that he had plenty to do with the new shop opening for him to be running around after doctors — ‘ just because a couple of kiddies are sick ’ . |
| 23 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
| 24 | Archbishop Egbert of Trier had himself represented on the first page of a book of liturgical gospel readings and in a psalter as if he were a Christ-like emperor seated in majesty . |
| 25 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 26 | Max had himself wanked off the other day in a deserted section among some ruins and said it was very good . |
| 27 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 28 | Mr Shamir , besieged by his party 's hawks , refused to accept America 's terms for holding Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo to prepare the election he had himself proposed for the occupied West Bank and Gaza . |
| 29 | Royal watchers said it was significant that Diana had not mentioned Morton by name , nor had she referred to the main allegations in his book . |
| 30 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |