Example sentences of "something [to-vb] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I suppose it has to be something to do with a net ! |
| 2 | It has something to do with a person 's occupation , the control and autonomy a person has , the amount of training required in order to do a particular job , the way occupation shapes life chances , income , style of life , the kind of social activities engaged in , the prestige a particular occupation attracts from others , and may be more . |
| 3 | After the war , when Helmut had something to do with a factory in Brazil , where he and Father had managed to set up a colony of displaced persons , Father supplied all the machine tools and worked closely with Helmut on the project . |
| 4 | Flute was a mirthless man who often used words like ‘ conception ’ , ‘ subtext ’ , and ‘ seminal ’ , and also ‘ Jarry-esque ’ , which appeared to have something to do with a play called Ubu Roi . |
| 5 | We seem to have a labour party that treats education as some kind of middle class hobby that thinks of education spending as something spent only on the bourgeoisie , something to do with a university , something not really important for ordinary people . |
| 6 | He tried to remember the details of the old scandal something to do with a scene on the stage that had stopped the performance , and after that she 'd never appeared again , until now . |
| 7 | Something to do with a scene on the stage that stopped the show ? ’ |
| 8 | Something to do with som something to do with a cotton mill in Paisley and it was s s s W I c just can nae recall what it was but it was a great big trial , there was a And er this this lawyer he had done quite well out of this case but it was a quite That must have been in er about nineteen twenty nineteen thirties about nineteen thirty two . |
| 9 | ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Something to do with a girl who killed herself ? ’ |
| 11 | Harriet sensing , quite rightly , that this must have something to do with a man , failed to receive any response to the most careful attempts to discover what was wrong . |
| 12 | Something to do with a vehicle somewhere in it . |
| 13 | Maybe it was something to do with a divorce from reality . |
| 14 | She had been right in her suspicion that David 's return had been something to do with a woman , but how wrong she had been over the reason . |
| 15 | Jonah , disliking the task for unexplained reasons which might have had something to do with a fear of being stoned to death by the partying Ninevites , ran away . |
| 16 | The other may well have had something to do with a desire to spike police interference with football . |
| 17 | $ A character indicating that the object has something to do with a string . |
| 18 | Something to do with a piece of machinery breaking down . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know all the details — it 's something to do with a house Peter tried to buy for his girl in Andorra . |
| 20 | The Ballard house was built into the side of a hill , a long , low granite building which had once been something to do with a mine . |
| 21 | ‘ Boggers ’ ( no , I do n't know why , though I suspect it may have something to do with a haircut that bears a passing resemblance to a bogbrush ) may have a couple of incisive seasons left in him at best , but opponents will rarely get a moment 's peace when he combines with Bicknell and Waqar Younis next year . |
| 22 | You may think that noise just has something to do with an airport at Stanstead , but it is n't . |
| 23 | If you wanted to join in the fun , it was essential to find something to beat with a stick — an old tin tray , an empty box or tin , even a piece of plywood — the instruments were legion — no matter as long as they created noise . |
| 24 | I like Asti , this is a this is a real something to have with a pudding . |