Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [indef pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shit , she said , I would have liked someone doing that if I were him . |
| 2 | Richardson was extraordinarly charismatic , dressed in very tight trousers and thigh-length boots — which may have had something to do with my infatuation — and he characterised Richard as a man of great vanity , constantly picking up a mirror and checking himself in it . |
| 3 | ‘ Last week , the incident happened just after the chance I missed , which may have had something to do with it . |
| 4 | Despite the noise of the traffic out in the piazza , the room had a peaceful sense of intimacy about it which may have had something to do with the large low beds and the subtle green and white colours . |
| 5 | Early in the new century the Manchester and Salford Scuttlers were succeeded by a new generation calling themselves ‘ Ikes ’ or ‘ Ikey Lads ’ , a name which may have had something to do with distinctive dress-styles made by Jewish tailor shops . |
| 6 | Jonah , disliking the task for unexplained reasons which might have had something to do with a fear of being stoned to death by the partying Ninevites , ran away . |
| 7 | I mean , if she 's peculiar , do you think she could have had something to do with Dominic 's death ? ’ |
| 8 | We had to stop drinking or we 'd have got nothing done this year , like ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 10 | The death of Isis may have been an aberration , or it may have had nothing to do with the others . |
| 11 | It may have had something to do with the bomb scares in London , when parts were shut off and traffic diverted . ’ |
| 12 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 13 | But it stuck in his mind that getting to England was something perilous and rare like rounding the Horn , it must have had something to do with his allowing himself to get so wholly cut off from Constanza later on . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose he 'll have had something to do with the animal house . |
| 15 | It might have had something to do with her illness , the eating disorder bulimia . |
| 16 | It might have had something to do with the murder because she seemed to think Ken Harris would be interested . ’ |
| 17 | It might have had something to do with tennis . |
| 18 | ‘ Yea , but not to get wild with the guy selling it because he might have had nothing to do with the theft . ’ |
| 19 | But they say the old man did n't have anything to do with it , but I du n no , he could have had something to do with it , I du n no . |