Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Then there was a strange silence , as if we 'd come to a full stop , as if he 'd expected me to react in some other way .
2 I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her .
3 Peter knew that Julian gambled , but he had n't expected him to gamble to that level , and certainly not to use the shop as security .
4 To her annoyance , although quite what she 'd expected him to do after that she could n't think , Tammuz grinned .
5 What 's made you to think of that ?
6 What had possessed her to look through those field-glasses ?
7 They 've had nothing to do with each other for damn near twenty years .
8 I comfort myself with that recollection when dealing with complaints about my own paper , very much part of a modern editor 's work in an age when our readers have become more critical and more discriminating , but Professor Macmurray 's insights have helped me to distinguish between those complaints that flow , as they sometimes do , from a different subjective interpretation of a given body of facts and those that arise from a straightforward error on our part .
9 He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others .
10 It 's got nothing to do with that .
11 It 's got nothing to do with that Roger .
12 Got nothing to do with that really .
13 It 's got nothing to do with that at all .
14 But yeah I mean it 's not going to be quite so true because they 're gon na think Well when you write it down you think Well actually it 's got nothing to do with this be really clever .
15 Martinho was watching , with that ‘ I 've got nothing to do with this ’ look that he put on when he 'd fucked things up good .
16 He 's not , he ca n't do , he 's got nothing to do with this actually , he 's got nothing to do with it
17 it 's got something to do with the fact that people have got nothing to do in those areas , and no cha , no prospects , no chance of getting a job and it 's actually quite a purposeful way of spending your time .
18 ‘ We 've got nothing to hide from each other . ’
19 So it looks as if you , people 's emotions have been tuned in such a way , that mothers look on these situations from their point of view and feel happy about it , and offspring like you look at it from their point of view and feel unhappy about it , and your emotions are the way the evolution has equipped you to deal with these problems .
20 ‘ The fact that there is an election has got everything to do with this . ’
21 that erm , that would mean I 've just got one to do after half term , that er
22 Children leaving home because they 've been abused physically or sexually erm or verbally erm the breakdown in the quality of family life has also got something to do with all this business and that has got to be addressed as well , and money wo n't change that .
23 So , in summary , we are all administered rather differently , but perhaps we 've all got something to learn from each other .
24 Her father would have had something to say about that .
25 I would have had something to say about that .
26 The fact that Butler 's party demanded ‘ home rule ’ and the nationalisation of major industries could have had something to do with this decision !
27 He suggests that shifts in the social and political climate in the United States may have had something to do with this change : the very dates of the steep rise of interest in functionalism among sociological theorists also suggests that it may have some ideological import .
28 So there was more , she realised , staring at him , and suddenly knew that Jamie had had something to do with this .
29 H This Contract shall represent all the terms agreed between the parties hereto and the buyer hereby admits that no statement made by the seller or his agent has induced him to enter into this Contract except written statements , if any , made by the seller 's conveyancers .
30 In fact , in some ways it 's a lot easier because I 've only got myself to think of these days .
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