Example sentences of "have [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My little boy has nothing to wear for the cold weather . " |
| 2 | This is part of growing up and has nothing to do with a deep-seated homosexual tendency . |
| 3 | It has nothing to do with the individual grant maintained schools . |
| 4 | While some associated with it tend to pose in sunglasses or growl into walkie-talkies and get totally caught up in the three-day whirl that has nothing to do with the real world , the contest , over the years , has given joy , drama and emotion . |
| 5 | One thing that I always wanted not to happen to me was to become like a TV cameraman who goes home to watch TV and says , ‘ Aw , look at that lighting , ’ or something trivial that really has nothing to do with the actual story . |
| 6 | First , it obviously has nothing to do with the actual gender of the words , since all of them refer to ungendered objects or substances . |
| 7 | In practice , however , it is very likely that the person who creates a DC , and enters all the initial information about it , will be a technical assistant , who has nothing to do with the actual implementation of the DC . |
| 8 | See , in America they 're being touted as ( cough , splutter ) ‘ The New Smiths ’ , which presumably has nothing to do with The New Seekers and a lot to do with , ‘ Hey , these guys are grreaat ! ’ |
| 9 | Incidentally , although sometimes called the Tuesday rose , it has nothing to do with the French words for either Monday ( lundi ) or Tuesday ( mardi ) . |
| 10 | The Social Charter , for instance , has nothing to do with the single market . |
| 11 | If , however , the music is highly chromatic , our memory of the original key is quickly obscured , so that we accept the establishment of new keys readily and are not disturbed if the music ends in a tonality which has nothing to do with the original key . |
| 12 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 13 | To reflect society can only mean comedy , in such a world , if a work is to convince as any sort of mirror , and the preference of other nations for melodrama and the bleeding heart has nothing to do with the habitual temper of British life . |
| 14 | The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . |
| 15 | A British company that has nothing to do with the American rail network , Amtrak is expanding and wants to recruit about 200 new franchisees in the next year . |
| 16 | It has nothing to do with the physical addiction . |
| 17 | It has nothing to do with the commercial future of nuclear power . |
| 18 | The novelist has himself referred to the self-generating quality of these works : he seems to provide the reader with a metaphor of the construction of narrative . |
| 19 | How much ‘ independence ’ do you suppose a person has who exists on the no-fixed-abode Giro of £34.90 a week ? |
| 20 | The first location has you trapped in a lonely , deserted pub called ‘ The Nobody Inn ’ where you meet a depressed dragon who complains there are n't any virgins to kidnap these days … ( except Phil King of course , heh , heh ! ) |
| 21 | Am I being completely cynical in thinking that the Government 's announcement about the great increase in public expenditure has something to do with a general election ? |
| 22 | It 's thought that the weather has something to do with the renewed joyriding . |
| 23 | It 's thought that the weather has something to do with the renewed joyriding . |
| 24 | It may be that the disjunction , for most modern English speakers , between abstract terms and concrete imagery has something to do with the complex foreign origins of the English language . |
| 25 | Maybe it has something to do with the curious outlook he had on life . |
| 26 | That has something to do with the indefinable thing called talent . |
| 27 | This generally has something to do with the actual failure , but it is possible that the fault is not accurately reflected in this message , so do n't assume that the problem is pin-pointed precisely every time by these messages . |
| 28 | As you can see , though each of these poems ‘ simply ’ describes a moment that has something to do with the natural world , other thoughts and messages come through at the same time . |
| 29 | The naive observer might be forgiven for believing that this contrast has something to do with the different weight given by members of the academic community to their research interests compared with their ‘ teaching interests ’ ( the very awkwardness of the term makes the point ) . |
| 30 | And perhaps that has something to do with the very nature of an ex-patriate community . |