Example sentences of "was [indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was nothing to do with the Change . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Something had gone wrong between him and Suzi that was nothing to do with the theatre . |
| 6 | So the bankruptcy of the original supplier was nothing to do with the delay or actually going for another supplier ? |
| 7 | It was nothing to do with the castle . |
| 8 | I had a nasty little feeling in my inside that was nothing to do with the sauna . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His men stopped being paid , and there was nothing to buy with the money they had . |
| 11 | All this was something to do with the manuscript . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Beauty , I thought , was something to do with the way a face betrayed character . |
| 14 | Presumably it was something to do with the way that Jenner approached his work . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | On reflection she believed it was something to do with the way she looked — her casual dress . |
| 17 | I wondered if it was something to do with the change . |
| 18 | So Penny rang those numbers to find out where it was and it was something to do with the council or something . |
| 19 | Victoria knew her Uncle Donald was something to do with the Queen 's castle , and that Aunt Rose was her father 's sister . |
| 20 | ‘ But you think it was something to do with the slander ? ’ asked Pascoe . |
| 21 | I think it was something to do with the place . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm none the wiser , unless his work was something to do with the Hell Fire Club . |
| 23 | Beth thought it was something to do with the heat haze but I know a centaur when I see one . |
| 24 | Saatchi & Saatchi , the communications group , was one to shine through the gloom . |
| 25 | But it denied the visit was anything to do with the bombing . |