Example sentences of "[vb base] nothing [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I mean nothing to do with this one . |
| 2 | The true reason was that I want nothing to do with that country while it remains as it is , and if it had n't been for Jean-Paul I 'd have ceased all our operations out there years ago . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , but she and Dr Heatherton take nothing to do with one another now ; everyone knows of it , though nobody is certain why . |
| 4 | We 've nothing to say to each other . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've nothing to do with this , Howard . |
| 6 | Chairman I 've nothing to add to this particular report , agreed . |
| 7 | If we 've nothing to add on this question , I suggest we shelve it for now and hear what Anthea Darnell has to say . ’ |
| 8 | We have nothing to say to each other . ’ |
| 9 | This does not at all mean that the study of aphasia and theories about the language processing system have nothing to say to each other . |
| 10 | You have nothing to fear in this exam at all if you d if you revise , right ? |
| 11 | Not only have UFOs nothing to do with ley lines , they have nothing to do with ancient monuments or geology . |
| 12 | A palindrome arises for reasons that have nothing to do with transformational grammar ; puns undoubtedly perform some sort of linguistic operation even though they are not accounted for in the grammars ; etymology reveals monsters more absurd than the most ignorant folk-etymology can imagine . |
| 13 | I have nothing to do with that . |
| 14 | ‘ The voice I recognized — oh yes — that will never change , please God , and you have nothing to do with that , Franz . |
| 15 | But , a marvellous thing happened whilst the trial is going on do n't forget , it 's in the dead of night and whilst the trial is going on there is Pilate 's wife at home in bed sleeping , and she has a dream , and seemed as though God spoke to her , and she saw and recognized the awful deed that her husband was about to commit , so she sent an urgent message to him that is , you 've got it in ve ve verse nineteen have nothing to do with that righteousness man for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of him . |
| 16 | When Svidrigailov and Porfiry , who never meet — bold again — and who have nothing to do with each other , both tell Raskolnikov that a man needs air , my business is to try and suggest how it is that Dostoevsky 's reader finds himself in immediate dual touch with a Petersburg july day and a universal truth . |
| 17 | Humour and sex have nothing to do with each other |
| 18 | It 's really sexist , lumping us together with bands who really have nothing to do with each other , and nothing to do with us . |
| 19 | It 's really sexist , lumping us together with bands who really have nothing to do with each other , and nothing to do with us . |
| 20 | Indeed , his insistence that punishments should only reflect the harm done to society and have nothing to do with subjective intent would seem to imply that the accident-prone should be treated the same as those who cause harm by design ! |
| 21 | Whatever went wrong in the years of Mary 's personal rule , therefore , simply can not be explained by inherited weakness ; her problems have nothing to do with insecure monarchy and overmighty subjects . |
| 22 | The genuine difficulty of understanding intricate artistic designs is evaded by the factitious difficulty of being exalted or troubled by important messages which have nothing to do with musical worth . |
| 23 | However , I wish to stress that the racecourses have nothing to do with this idiotic piece of planning . |
| 24 | Whiskers have nothing to do with human hair and are in fact long thin needle crystals which can be grown from most substances by accident or by care . |
| 25 | Edges that ought to be significant are either absent from an image or almost so and the strongest changes in an image are often changes in illumination and have nothing to do with meaningful relations in a scene . ’ |
| 26 | Similarly , James makes sparse use of adjectives ( 6 ) , and of those that occur , many have nothing to do with physical attributes : unwilling , conventional , affable , casual , cynical , etc . |
| 27 | I must stress we have nothing to do with any commercial company and no costs are involved . |
| 28 | With our stage and our workshops , which are better than any theatre in the world , we are able to achieve really striking stage pictures ; and they have nothing to do with these modern productions that do everything contrary to the music . |
| 29 | ‘ We got a boost out of the cup run , but promotion has always mattered most and now we have nothing to interfere with that . |
| 30 | Parties on the extreme right have nothing to gain in electoral terms from such antisemitism : their appeal is to ethnocentric fears of groups other than Jews . |