Example sentences of "had [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt that the Eastern District , serving a widely-scattered , largely-rural population , working generally in co-operation rather than competition with Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board , and always seeking to maintain high standards , had nothing to fear from the amendment of grant regulations proposed in Recommendation 6 , an amendment which took into account quality of work , the needs of the region as a whole and the provision made by other interested bodies . |
| 2 | At a brief opening ceremony , Mandela , speaking partly in Afrikaans , assured the white minority of the population that they " had nothing to fear from the ANC " , expressing the hope that the talks would begin a process of resolving conflicts between the races " through discussion among equals " . |
| 3 | but then again since , up , up until the mid forties we had nothing to fear from the because they , they did n't have much of an army themselves , they had millions and millions of men but no resources or facilities to build it |
| 4 | To Loppe himself he had nothing to give save the task in Cyprus which had seemed most worth doing . |
| 5 | It was n't the nigger 's fault that he had nothing to do for the moment . |
| 6 | The US Southern Command called the accusations ridiculous , declaring : ‘ We had nothing to do with the coup . ’ |
| 7 | Here was Socialism putting forward irrelevant theories of class war and wanting to rule the country by a set of theories which had nothing to do with the welfare of the people . |
| 8 | But what aroused resentment from people in the film industry had nothing to do with the merits of these films , which critic Raymond Durgnat reasonably characterized as ‘ sub-Ealing comedies so timid as to be positively ingratiating , ’ nor the production programme 's lack of profitability . |
| 9 | This had nothing to do with the European Social Charter , which proposes to enshrine similar rights , he said . |
| 10 | Mr Sjogren repeated that his client insisted he had nothing to do with the explosion that brought down PanAm 103 . |
| 11 | The government says it had nothing to do with the case . |
| 12 | No , it had nothing to do with the heart . |
| 13 | I had nothing to do with the rifleman 's death , sir . |
| 14 | Another man who had nothing to do with the murder was an attention seeker , Owen Roberts , a tailor of no fixed abode who admitted the murder when arrested at Pangbourne for another , but trivial offence . |
| 15 | I had nothing to do with the financial side of the firm , and big output does not necessarily mean big profit . ’ |
| 16 | But because the conception of the Certificate did not originate within the recognized schools examination boards , indeed had nothing to do with the DES , it is now thought of as suitable more for further education than for schools , and it seems to invoke all over again the old distinction between ‘ education ’ and ‘ training ’ . |
| 17 | I had nothing to do with the recording and creative side but I changed guitar strings and that kind of thing . |
| 18 | It transpired that the other two had nothing to do with the post office and knew hardly any French . |
| 19 | It did n't happen , which had nothing to do with the state of mind we might have been in after Jonathan , but everything to do with another independent channel showing a related subject . |
| 20 | He says the relationship between GM and Lotus had nothing to do with the Elan 's failure . |
| 21 | Its clammy coldness had nothing to do with the coldness of the day . |
| 22 | Ironically , the protest had nothing to do with the South Africans who were as warmly received as they had been in Jamaica and Trinidad , greeted and feted by the government and watched by Prime Ministers Erskine Sandiford of Barbados and P.J. Patterson of Jamaica who came specially for the historic occasion , the first Test ever played between teams previously kept apart by the ideology of racial superiority . |
| 23 | Again silence ; an arctic frosting of the air that had nothing to do with the weather . |
| 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 | It stressed that it accepted that Black had nothing to do with the stolen goods or weapons found at the cottage . |
| 26 | When they dissociate themselves from the academic world of their time , they are making the time-honoured mystical point that what Wordsworth would call ‘ the meddling intellect ’ had nothing to do with the vision of God . |
| 27 | As we shall see , mystical teachers tirelessly proclaimed that visions and voices were not an essential part of the mystical journey and could in fact be a distraction ; the mystical apprehension of God certainly had nothing to do with the ordinary emotions . |
| 28 | Since Hilton is at pains to show that true contemplation had nothing to do with the emotions and clearly disapproves of Rolle 's spirituality , the term seems puzzling . |
| 29 | He was tried and executed , protesting that he had nothing to do with the affair . |
| 30 | Most of the guys I hung around with had nothing to do with the business . |