Example sentences of "[verb] anything [to-vb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think it has anything to do with sex . |
| 2 | ‘ Gibson talked about VR being like freebasing TV ads , and if the show has anything to do with cyberspace , it 's about that idea . |
| 3 | It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter . |
| 4 | Few librarians would agree that censorship has anything to do with book selection , and indeed as we shall see they are or should be diametrically opposite operations with entirely different functions . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's almost impossible to sell anything to do with politics ’ , said Mr Weston , barely containing his excitement ; ‘ but North touches a deep wellspring in the American spirit . |
| 6 | Ask anyone who 's had anything to do with pen computers and , unless they 're trying to sell you one , they 'll say the same thing . |
| 7 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |
| 8 | Has that got anything to do with physics ? |
| 9 | ‘ Has that got anything to do with fertility ? ’ |
| 10 | One thing was absolutely certain ; as it was my chest we were to chat about , it could n't have anything to do with cancer . |
| 11 | I know you do n't actually have anything to do with service stations , is that correct , as a Tourist Board ? |
| 12 | It does n't , you know , it does n't have anything to do with trade . |
| 13 | Well , it was supposed to be a holiday , and I did promise Claire I would n't take anything to do with work to Barbados , but both of us noticed fairly quickly just how few dogs there were on the island . |
| 14 | The only rigour in Hennigian cladistics is produced by the straitjacket of assumptions that Hennig has fastened on himself and his version of the subject , which effectively separates it from having anything to do with evolution . |
| 15 | ‘ What about when it poohs ? ’ asked Edwin , who knew anything to do with pooh usually got a laugh . |
| 16 | You might charitably allow an Academic with spellcasting powers an Int test ( with a -25 penalty ) to recognize that this ritual does n't seem to have anything to do with travel , but does have quite a lot to do with death and blood . |
| 17 | Furthermore , although it is smaller , there is an area that corresponds to Broca 's area in the right hemisphere that does n't seem to have anything to do with speech but which seems to have many of the same connections . |
| 18 | I do n't think it necessarily has to have anything to do with sexuality . |
| 19 | ‘ I never 'ave anything to do with trash if I can 'elp it . ’ |
| 20 | I have also been told I am photogenic and I love anything to do with hair and make-up . |
| 21 | In discussions with Bohr in September 1926 Schrödinger said " If we are going to stick to this damn quantum-jumping , then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory " . |
| 22 | Andrus , for all his faults , was , politics aside ( and no Egyptian would accept that politics had anything to do with morality ) , a moral man . |
| 23 | Both companies denied this had anything to do with evidence that chlorine-bleaching produces dioxins ( ie. extremely toxic , artificially produced chemicals implicated in cancer , birth defects and immune system breakdown ) . |
| 24 | Nowadays I ca n't bear anything to do with football , kicking an air-filled pig 's bladder up and down a muddy pitch ai n't my idea of fun . |
| 25 | You could n't wait to get back down here then and did n't want anything to do with space exploration . ’ |
| 26 | She says , ‘ Anything to do with knitting seems to go in my head and stay , buy anything to do with cooking and cleaning goes straight through and out the other side ! ’ |
| 27 | Their system " seeks to give effect to the wishes of every voter , whatever they may be and whether they have anything to do with party or not " . |
| 28 | In response to your assertion that the yellow handkerchief was transmuted into a ribbon because ‘ you ca n't find anything to rhyme with handkerchief ’ , I must point out that , in the song , the word ribbon never rhymed with anything . |