Example sentences of "nothing to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am thirteen years old , and if ten years of my youth were taken over by four plain walls and nothing to do , I know how I would feel . |
| 2 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
| 3 | Paradoxically , Loiseau originally wanted nothing to do with cooking . |
| 4 | ‘ Geoffrey did n't care that we were poor , it was nothing to do with that . |
| 5 | I suppose all this henthusiasm has nothing to do with the fact that he 's a very handsome young man , has it ? ’ |
| 6 | ( In the air this is nothing to do with the actual wind . |
| 7 | It 's nothing to do with coming , it 's everything to do with intoxication , flesh-frenzy , reckless rampant effervescent fever . |
| 8 | ‘ But that 's got nothing to do with it … ’ |
| 9 | It 's nothing to do with you . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps his worst betrayal had been nothing to do with unburnt papers , it had been whatever he had conceded , or let slip , or left ambiguous , at the second long examination after arriving in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's nothing to do with anything . |
| 12 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 13 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 14 | There is no light and shade and this way of using the pointes has nothing to do with giving a finishing touch to such dances as those fur Petipa 's Aurora and the Six Fairies in The Sleeping Beauty to make them seem lighter than air . |
| 15 | There was nothing to do all day so we just lay about . |
| 16 | He is absent yet meticulous , paying for a missing drink-shop teaspoon which has nothing to do with him , and spending a long time in the ‘ interesting occupation ’ of trying to catch a fly . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , in the novel 's final text the shapka becomes a peaked cap ( kartuz ) and Shaposhnikov 's name gets changed to Shatov which has nothing to do with caps or hats at all . |
| 19 | Once again the change can have nothing to do with making the chapter more acceptable . |
| 20 | This has nothing to do with reference to any particular dog , or even whether dogs actually exist at all . |
| 21 | I 'm against some sorts of professionalization , but it would be silly to think that the university should have nothing to do with any profession . |
| 22 | If Zapp believes that writing about literature has nothing to do with liking it , Swallow likes it all too much to be able to write about it : |
| 23 | ‘ . All quite true of course , but it has little or nothing to do with the passage in question , whoch focuses very markedly not on Aeneas but on his father Anchises : |
| 24 | A fourth man , said to have provided the bomb , has added that they had nothing to do with it . |
| 25 | Johnny Mars Blues Band Unrepentant Smiths fans need not beat a path to the door , this is nothing to do with Johnny Marr . |
| 26 | It is an irrelevant disappointment that after her delightful scene with Princess Katherine ( Emma Thompson ) , Geraldine McEwan as Alice has nothing to do but adjust a veil or two and look pleased . |
| 27 | The US Southern Command called the accusations ridiculous , declaring : ‘ We had nothing to do with the coup . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Georgiadis said : ‘ This murder has nothing to do with poachers , Ugandans , Somalians , Tanzanians or little green men from Mars … |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | Only we are behaving as if it 's nothing to do with us and that only the West is to blame for the thousands who turn their back on us . ’ |