Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to find anyone to care for Beru while they were in hospital , they asked a tradesman to leave her in the mountains ‘ to die naturally ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Soapy had to do something to get to prison . |
| 4 | So th to a , you know , and as said , you know we erm we do n't need to bribe anybody to come into Morecambe . |
| 5 | It would be impossible to persuade anyone to act as trustee unless the discretion entrusted to him were very liberally conferred , and it is now possible for a trustee to delegate to an agent , not merely pieces of business requiring especial skill , but the whole business of the trust , and escape liability so long as he acts in good faith . |
| 6 | It is important to note in this context that courts have an inherent power to permit anyone to act as advocate , though this is seldom exercised except for the massive exception which at one time allowed police officers to act as prosecutors in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 7 | Pilate 's wife sent him a message begging him to have nothing to do with Jesus as she had experienced a bad dream because of him . |
| 8 | So what I thought was that it was quite important to look at all these organisations that do seem to me really to have nothing to do with Oxford or Oxfordshire , and that we should be very careful . |
| 9 | A major reason why people decide to have nothing to do with religion is that , in the name of religion , much injustice , violence and bigotry has been perpetrated . |
| 10 | The name is believed to have nothing to do with cheeses . |
| 11 | But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta . |
| 12 | She just had to have someone to talk about Fred to , and Jane , who 'd been through exactly the same cycle of experiences with him as Doris had , only one floor below , was the ideal person . " |
| 13 | I told ye not to have anythin' to do with Una O'Malley . |
| 14 | As noted earlier , a number of attempts have been made to overcome the problems of those early days On more than one occasion " new blood " has been introduced in the form of teachers and others who were thought by the panel to have something to offer in fields with which the project was concerned . |
| 15 | There 's a Danish guy I do business with and although Thomas knows him well , and loves going in his van , he refuses to have anything to do with Leif himself . |
| 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 | After Angela Deverill 's cruel treatment of him he had vowed never to have anything to do with women again — other than to slake certain demanding bodily appetites — and then even the appetites had disappeared until McAllister had revived them . |
| 18 | Yet most Dissenters did avail themselves of the relief afforded by the Declaration , and some eighty addresses of thanks were presented by various Nonconforming ministers and churches ; addresses even came in from the Quakers , who had refused to have anything to do with Charles 's Indulgence of 1672 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I do n't think it necessarily has to have anything to do with sexuality . |
| 21 | A cow , reared for the first six months of its life in an environment of people and horses , may refuse to have anything to do with cows in its own paddock for all the years that follow . |
| 22 | People younger than him , he noted , ‘ not only reject all a priori ideological filters , just as I do , but … refuse to have anything to do with people who use such filters . |
| 23 | I could put another one on for any member of staff who wishes to take one to use at interviews . |