Example sentences of "had [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had nothing to do with peace , neither in life , nor in her anticipated death . |
| 2 | A pessimistic interpretation of the findings based on this approach was that the visual cortex had nothing to do with vision , since few , if any , cells in that part of the brain showed any interest in spots of light they were presenting them with . |
| 3 | The negation had nothing to do with technique or abstraction . |
| 4 | A psychopathic killer had nothing to do with happiness , either . |
| 5 | Hence-forward an astute man by adherence to legal rules which had nothing to do with morality could grow immeasurably rich by virtue of shuffling off his most elementary obligations to his fellows . |
| 6 | An invitation that had nothing to do with money , but owed more to sheep in a shelter on the other side of England . |
| 7 | At first father was unwilling … it had nothing to do with school , he said . |
| 8 | Rose 's first reaction was pleasure , the second unease , and the third a downright sinking feeling inside that had nothing to do with appetite . |
| 9 | ‘ I never remember a fight with more than two people involved with the rest of us encouraging them usually , holding their coats until the police stepped in to break it up , and these scuffles normally had nothing to do with loyalty to rival teams . ’ |
| 10 | The war had nothing to do with art or artists . |
| 11 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 12 | In ‘ The disappearance ’ , Imamu has to prove that he had nothing to do with Perk 's disappearance by finding her dead body in someone else 's house having been murdered by that person and Boo has to risk his own life in order to save that of Scout 's before his most ignorant neighbours realise he 's not a squirrel eating monster . |
| 13 | But what had just happened had nothing to do with etiquette : Antonio Crepi had made it clear that for him , and by extension for the whole of the Perugia that mattered , Zen had ceased to exist . |
| 14 | Yanto realised that Billy 's instant agreement to leave had nothing to do with embarrassment . |
| 15 | Hysteria had nothing to do with reality , it was something you could n't help , could n't hold back any more than you could stop flood water finding out the weak places in a dam . |
| 16 | She undressed quickly , as if against time ; but the speed of her movements had nothing to do with desire . |
| 17 | I make no complaint about such information being kept , but I am worried about it appearing on the police national computer when the original request had nothing to do with prostitution . |
| 18 | Given that the majority was aligned on grounds which had nothing to do with policy , it was difficult for strangers to vote so publicly and at the same time to hold aloof from an alignment in which they had no personal interest , and which might even have damaged their commercial interests . |
| 19 | These decisions angered many sections of the white community , including de Klerk who said that national symbols had nothing to do with apartheid . |
| 20 | Taylor was at pains to stress that Robson 's decision to retire had nothing to do with pique . |
| 21 | ‘ It had nothing to do with security , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ It had nothing to do with security , ’ he said . |
| 23 | July eventually ground to an end and the steam was taken out of that difficult month by an event which had nothing to do with politics . |
| 24 | And Kate kissed him back , caught up in feelings that had nothing to do with background or career or anything except pure sensation . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher , however , claimed that the riots had nothing to do with unemployment and deprivation , but arose as a direct consequence of a lack of discipline within the family and in the schools . |
| 26 | This must surely mean that acid rain was natural and the acidification of lochs had nothing to do with power stations . |
| 27 | The Board of Guardians dealt with the matter in committee , and later issued a statement to the press : the master had been before the Board about certain irregularities , but had nothing to say in response . |
| 28 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 29 | As a result , I reacted in front of the jury in a way which may have made them think that , in fact , the defence had nothing to lose by disclosure of the statement . |
| 30 | And what had she to do with Undersea ? |