Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | its got nothing to do with it |
| 2 | That morning , as usual , he found nothing to complain of , so instead he wheeled on me to demand whether the boat 's electronic instruments were functioning properly . |
| 3 | She found nothing to say about the yearlings and shrank quite sensibly from their forward advances , staying silent and watchful while Nicandra talked and lifted solemn grey eyes to Andrew 's , sure of his entire attention . |
| 4 | ‘ Lustig ’ is the quality missing here but , having said that , I found plenty to enjoy in this seldom aired repertory . |
| 5 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 6 | By the time the water had heated she had spread out the sleeping-bag before the fire , laid out a fresh shirt , and found something to use as a wash-cloth . |
| 7 | By the end of the evening Laura had shaken everybody 's hand and found something to say to each one . |
| 8 | The ‘ some information ’ turned out to be nine specific subjects in research and development fields , which , though useful , excluded anything to do with weapons . |
| 9 | They got nobody to look after us ! |
| 10 | There seemed nothing to say to this . |
| 11 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 12 | All the more pity , therefore , that , in his sweeping dismissals of British cinema where there seemed nothing to praise beyond Humphrey Jennings ' poetic documentaries , he refused any engagement with the darker elements in the native cinematic culture . |
| 13 | Well I would agree with you there but that 's we were n't running it , and we 'd nothing to do with er with the organizing of yesterday 's . |
| 14 | He 'd nothing to say to her ; he did n't even plan to tell her that he 'd been to see her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So lavish there , she 'd none to spare for me ? |
| 17 | People noticed everything to do with the Lorrimores . |
| 18 | If you 'd anything to put in it you 'd blowed the a the dampness out you see and dried it . |
| 19 | The dictator ( to look at one of Keith Graham 's examples ) who allowed everyone to decide for themselves what they wanted and then told them what they must do , is violating their autonomy not because their wants and needs are not realised in action , but because they have been coerced into doing something they do not want . |
| 20 | The vast 100ft gallery allowed one to move from each painting as from event to event , marking its relation to the last . |
| 21 | Jean-François Briant cuts sheets of steel into more or less identifiable natural forms , leaves with veins incised into openings , ears of corn , vegetable silhouettes which slide imperceptibly towards representations of objects as if at every fold and cut the metal allowed one to read into it fragments of history , of a previous life . |
| 22 | He hated everything to do with household chores and keeping the place clean so he concentrated hard on creating as little mess as possible . |
| 23 | As a matter of fact , he hated anyone to get to the post before himself , needed to be the first to turn them over and sort them out . |
| 24 | Neither the possibility of higher mortgage rates nor the prospect of a Labour Budget increasing taxes encouraged anyone to take on an increased mortgage . |
| 25 | Weather I suppose got something to do with it had a weekend down there with her and Ant |
| 26 | In Cambridge got something to do with , what was that he said ? |
| 27 | Perhaps the title led one to hope for more of a synthesis than is possible in the space . |
| 28 | Bennett , on the other hand , had my absolute loyalty and to witness him in action led one to understand in later years what Lord Reith — founder Director of the BBC — meant when he said " I was never fully stretched " . |
| 29 | ‘ I suggested we sold everything to go into it , ’ he says . |
| 30 | Or maybe I just discovered something to do with the style or the line of his cruelty . |