Example sentences of "[indef pn] do [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was gon na further say that erm , you know , beside lack of information itself , information of repression , information into someone 's life I mean , repression necessarily I mean the , the thing that someone does in their lifetime might necessarily strange and distracted , and the purpose of the thing |
| 2 | There was plenty to do on your own doorstep — to look further was a cop-out . |
| 3 | I only recognise the poetic meaning of words , that is , the sound of words , their music , which has nothing to do with their meaning . |
| 4 | Thus black achievement has nothing to do with their struggles and the white boys ' failure is dissociated from any implication of personal inadequacy . |
| 5 | ‘ But you had nothing to do with their choice ? |
| 6 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 7 | This had nothing to do with her looks , which were traditional English upper-middle class , soft and rounded , sweet yet sturdy . |
| 8 | These are absent , saved for conversation in restaurants where she talks with great animation , but on a plane which seems to have nothing to do with her sexual avidity . |
| 9 | ‘ Said it was nothing to do with her professional integrity , just that she was pursuing the spying line a bit too vigorously . |
| 10 | If her marriage had to be mentioned at all — and she did n't see why it was even necessary , it had absolutely nothing to do with her work as a book illustrator — then at least they could have got the facts straight , and described her as separated . |
| 11 | But you must understand that her refusal has nothing to do with her wishes . |
| 12 | And , she thought with relief , if new evidence had turned up in France , it might mean that Veronica had had nothing to do with her husband 's death . |
| 13 | She directed her eyes to his , secretly willing him to see the truth that had nothing to do with her partner or Maria Luisa — the truth that she had loved him then and still did . |
| 14 | It had nothing to do with its policies , Neil Kinnock or its campaign . |
| 15 | But in the immediate wake of the October 19 crash , IBM 's most serious rival , Comdisco , disclosed that it had lost $100m in a business that had nothing to do with its main occupation of leasing and trading IBM equipment . |
| 16 | Paprika 's is a tiny restaurant whose walls are covered in extinct record covers ( Julie London , Vicky Carr ) , menus which have nothing to do with its own , candid photographs of mouths and patrons eating . |
| 17 | The FISA president said the sanction against Mansell was for this breach of security rules and had nothing to do with his failure to stop after a black flag was waved at him three times . |
| 18 | It is nothing to do with his love life or his own business but a lot of money is involved . ’ |
| 19 | He had nothing to do with his neighbours . |
| 20 | It was only in London they had to keep up the pretence that Buckmaster had nothing to do with his company . |
| 21 | Frederick Cranko 's family , who had disapproved of his marrying a Jew , would have nothing to do with his widow . |
| 22 | Indeed , in a remarkable episode , El Cid is said to have forced Alfonso to swear an oath on sacred relics to the effect that he had nothing to do with his brother 's murder . |
| 23 | The fact that he was a two-tone fish probably had nothing to do with his leadership . |
| 24 | But White says that row has nothing to do with his vehement stance on the Sahabi bone issue . |
| 25 | This had nothing to do with his chemistry . |
| 26 | It had nothing to do with his empathy , for shield as deep as she would , until the whole World became flatly three-dimensional , the conviction was still there . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's nothing to do with his birthday , nor with his telephone numbers , nor addresses , past or present , nor his bank accounts , nor his national insurance . ’ |
| 28 | It has nothing to do with his looks — he is unlikely to be mistaken for a ‘ white shark ’ — but his misfortune . |
| 29 | ‘ Some of it seemed to cross into the Aids field , which had nothing to do with his brief at the Royal Free . ’ |
| 30 | His reasons for no longer enjoying it had nothing to do with his accident , now well past him , or with the failure of the Brabham venture ; it was within himself . |