Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life , as John recalls it , was happy if hard , with not much time left over for fun after the daily toil was complete and certainly nothing to spare for luxuries . |
| 2 | Merrill 's dark eyebrows lifted a little ; surely there ought to be a reception desk , and someone to attend to visitors ? |
| 3 | If you forced someone to live on nuts and lentils they 'd go roaring on to the European Court of Human Rights or something . ’ |
| 4 | Summat to do with gallstones in n it ? |
| 5 | But he did give me somebody to ring about caravans |
| 6 | Especially in a village like Markham cum Cumbermound with nothing to do for kids in the evening . ’ |
| 7 | There was a pause , before Simon said with a smile , ‘ Well , that 's a bit difficult ; there 's nothing to do between elections . ’ |
| 8 | No more German targets to bomb , nothing to do except circuits and bumps , navigation trips and map reading . |
| 9 | They are bony fish ( with swimbladders ) related to herrings , trout , etc. , and are nothing to do with sharks . |
| 10 | Nothing to do with heroics — heroics are for those epics they make in Hollywood — or the fact that I could n't live with myself . |
| 11 | It had nothing to do with Goths and Vandals , and was not exclusively a church architecture , nor was it ‘ the badge of some particular ecclesiastical party ’ . |
| 12 | In Uruguay the first journal was called Ferrocarril ( ‘ Railway ’ ) , although its content had little or nothing to do with railways . |
| 13 | The Queen 's reply was friendly — and totally negative , indicating clearly that personal feelings of friendship had nothing to do with affairs of state : |
| 14 | ‘ I would have nothing to do with Copts . |
| 15 | But the Bemba language translator used the word ukubstanduka , which means ‘ to boycott them ’ , so that Kaunda was quoted in Bemba as saying that Zambians should shun or have nothing to do with Britons in Zambia . |
| 16 | It 's not crime , it 's got nothing to do with crime , it 's got nothing to do with cowboys and indians |
| 17 | It 's nothing to do with laws of form . |
| 18 | There were also cases which had nothing to do with cattle . |
| 19 | Apart from its direct interpretation , the TSP can also be applied to problems that have nothing to do with towns and salesmen . |
| 20 | Nothing to do with biscuits . |
| 21 | Nothing to do with biscuits . |
| 22 | It had nothing to do with friendships though . |
| 23 | I had nothing to do with meals or anything at home . ’ |
| 24 | No one has been able to explain it to me ( it 's nothing to do with horses by the way ) . |
| 25 | Canvassing has nothing to do with electors . |
| 26 | ( Nothing to do with mice or holes but probably a corruption of the Cornish Moweshayl , young women 's river — perhaps where they did their washing . ) |
| 27 | She insists on a dignity which has nothing to do with appearances . |
| 28 | If there was no monetary gain involved — and the organisers claim there was not — C&E say it has nothing to do with sanctions . |
| 29 | The seamen are therefore determined that they will have nothing to do with Germans of any description until the Germans have made full reparation for the cruel murders committed and the lives lost on the high seas from submarine action " . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm having nothing to do with things , ’ said Joe , ‘ so stop your tickling . |