Example sentences of "had [pron] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She had nothing to fear from Marion . |
| 4 | He had nothing to fear from a Council , and Anselm was able to hold two Councils in the last years of his life ; the first of these in 1102 was certainly the high point in his activity as archbishop . |
| 5 | Mike , furious , could see that Adam clearly felt he had nothing to fear from his little brother . |
| 6 | In his celebrated visit to Posidotuus ' house in Rhodes , Pompey made it clear that the Roman fasces had to bow down before philosophy ; they certainly had nothing to fear from it . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | Tory Anglicans believed they had nothing to fear from a popish successor whilst those in control of the mechanisms of local government were determined to enforce the laws designed to protect the Church . |
| 9 | He smiled and there was no triumph , only genuine pleasure that she had accepted his offer , and Ruth knew in her heart that she had nothing to fear from this man . |
| 10 | ‘ When I said you had nothing to fear from me I meant it , young lady . |
| 11 | Brian Hillier agreed with the defence suggestion that he had nothing to fear from any so-called threats , he had already resigned from the club and he was awaiting trial for cheating the taxman . |
| 12 | And London-based vice-chairwoman of Democrats Abroad , Sally McNulty , said Britain had nothing to fear from a Clinton presidency . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | To Loppe himself he had nothing to give save the task in Cyprus which had seemed most worth doing . |
| 15 | It was n't the nigger 's fault that he had nothing to do for the moment . |
| 16 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 17 | A fourth man , said to have provided the bomb , has added that they had nothing to do with it . |
| 18 | The US Southern Command called the accusations ridiculous , declaring : ‘ We had nothing to do with the coup . ’ |
| 19 | The FISA president said the sanction against Mansell was for this breach of security rules and had nothing to do with his failure to stop after a black flag was waved at him three times . |
| 20 | When the appellant received notice of the order , he applied for the order to be set aside on the grounds that he had no notice of the proceedings and had nothing to do with it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When Chamberlain returned from his post-war African tour to a hero 's welcome in March 1903 , he found to his hand a request from the Dominions themselves which , though it had nothing to do with Imperial unity , and indeed was rather symptomatic of growing independence , he seized upon and elevated into the first step towards ‘ consolidation of the Empire ’ . |
| 23 | It had nothing to do with friendships though . |
| 24 | It was the temple for everyone who wanted to be involved in something that had nothing to do with what most people thought was ‘ happening ’ in that part of the seventies . |
| 25 | Stone is utterly convincing in his argument that the 1857 Divorce Act had nothing to do with perceived changes in the economic conditions of the labouring poor during early industrialization and everything to do with lawyers ' determination to do something about the chaotic state of the law . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | He says he had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But they had nothing to do with cheap mullet . |
| 30 | The negation had nothing to do with technique or abstraction . |