Example sentences of "to do [prep] the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 2 | GUIL : ( Musing ) The law of probability , it has been oddly asserted , is something to do with the proposition that if six monkeys ( He has surprised himself ) … if six monkeys were … |
| 3 | I have , item , paragraph one , Mr Chairman , is right to do with the work that has to be done . |
| 4 | We had the most wonderful evening , it began with a film show , an extremely well er composed film to do with the work that is being done , the variety of work that is being done in the variety of places . |
| 5 | But as a small child she was so inspired by anything to do with the theatre that at six she was sent to the Barbara Speake stage school in Acton , west London . |
| 6 | The ‘ tangent … in the hand 's cup ’ has to do with the legend that the shapes of the finest Greek vases were replicated from the contour of the divinely beautiful woman 's breast , as cupped in her lover 's hand and thereafter imprinted on his mind — obviously a powerful emblem of how the impulse to artistic manufacture is erotic . |
| 7 | Mr Sjogren repeated that his client insisted he had nothing to do with the explosion that brought down PanAm 103 . |
| 8 | Which probably had something to do with the way that what we sold would reappear slightly redone in Acme six months later . |
| 9 | ‘ It is something to do with the way that people want to chop your head off once you get successful . ’ |
| 10 | When we look at the mysteries of life we must look also at phenomena that seem , on the face of it , to have little to do with the way that life works . |
| 11 | Rosenhan concludes that the diagnosis of mental illness has less to do with the symptoms that are exhibited by patients , and more to do with the way that behaviour is interpreted by doctors who ‘ know ’ that someone is mentally ill . |
| 12 | Presumably it was something to do with the way that Jenner approached his work . |
| 13 | It 's something to do there 's a clue the clue to Switzerland is something to do with the way that they make their electricity . |
| 14 | ‘ I have that to tell you that I should have told before this , since it has to do with the issue that is now in dispute among all here . |
| 15 | " Is it to do with the bomb that was thrown at the governor general ? " |
| 16 | I wonder if it 's something to do with the job that you do or the people you have to work with I do n't know but that 's generally the tendency of people in these groups , team workers come out quite highly . |
| 17 | When older people think of the past they are not just taking stock of their lives but trying to decide what to do with the time that they have left , and trying to do so in relation to concluding or making sense of what has gone before . |
| 18 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 19 | It was probably something to do with the view that had convinced George he ought to be drinking a very large glass of dry sherry from the wood . |
| 20 | I know I had to explain to somebody in Chambers the other day something to do with the Corpus that it was n't where was the story there was n't a story |
| 21 | But I think all the silliness is all part of actually adjusting to the condom , and something to do with the embarrassment that because they do n't know enough about it they , they do n't want to be er , seen to be silly |
| 22 | My automatic response might just have had something to do with the fire that the Factory had predicted , but deep inside I knew that that was n't all there was to it , and that there was more to come . |
| 23 | I suppose it has something to do with the feeling that what came out of America tended to operate at either of two levels . |
| 24 | He knew that the embarrassment had nothing to do with the fear that he would question , criticize , move like a spy among them . |
| 25 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 26 | She had known when she set eyes on them that they were nothing to do with the Smoke and nothing to do with the expedition that was preparing . |
| 27 | Perhaps you could tell P C some of the things to do with the investigation that were in the programme , |
| 28 | I suppose all this henthusiasm has nothing to do with the fact that he 's a very handsome young man , has it ? ’ |
| 29 | Their manager 's distress on hearing the draw could have something to do with the fact that Messiahs are not usually expected to rework old miracles . |
| 30 | That I am living in Britain in the first place has everything to do with the fact that I came here to start the magazine you are reading , a magazine for men . |