Example sentences of "not have [pron] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't help wondering ’ , she said , ‘ whether this sudden ability that has come to you , of being able to move an object without touching it , whether it might not have something to do with your brainpower . ’ |
| 2 | But there is a little something I can detect in the atmosphere between those two that might or might not have something to do with the murder of Egan by Place . ’ |
| 3 | If the first British-born generation of Caribbeans can be said to date from the period around 1960 , then it began to reach its Creole-speaking adolescence around 1972 — as a result of a coincidence of factors which may or may not have something to do with the popularity of Jamaican music around that time . |
| 4 | It warns us that we should not have anything to do with them or with people who try to use their powers . |
| 5 | ‘ Constitutional matters do not have anything to do with being on speaking terms , they have to do with legal status . |
| 6 | I 'm equally confident that the higher direction of MI5 and those operating today do not have anything to do with this , nor have they done so at any time . |
| 7 | You should not have anything to do with him . |
| 8 | But human sensory physiology , which mediates the colour contrast phenomenon , does not have anything to do with the presentation appearance of the material to the point at which the observer is . |
| 9 | When asked in 1890 if a country like Russia should not have an independent Ministry of Agriculture , Vyshnegradsky was responsible for another bon mot : ‘ But the Minister of Agriculture will not have anything to do . ’ |
| 10 | This Congress was convened to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Abbe de l'Epee a foremost pioneer in the history of deaf education , and was intended " to prove the progress which had been accomplished during the last century in the moral , material and social condition of the adult deaf and dumb ; therefore this Congress will not have anything to do with , or to remark on the methods of teaching which is not in its province " . |
| 11 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 12 | Before Midnight had a chance to reply , Salt said sharply : ‘ He may not have aught to do , but the rest of us have n't time to stand gossiping . ’ |
| 13 | " Well , I 'm not having anything to do with it . |
| 14 | And during my last month here , I 'm not having anything to do with your plans for Yorick . ’ |
| 15 | It was because it meant abandoning her dream of a small country practice jogging happily along and not having anything to do with what she thought of as empire-building . |
| 16 | I think he must be gay , I mean going into a monastery and not having anything to do with women and wearing a cravat |
| 17 | I 'm not having owt to do with this ! |
| 18 | I told ye not to have anythin' to do with Una O'Malley . |
| 19 | If you prefer not to have anything to do with it , if you prefer not to sully your hands … ’ her voice was heavily sarcastic , ‘ I will do the job myself . |
| 20 | Chapman , he said , had begged him not to let Buchan go , but at the same time made it clear that , because of his previous suspension for alleged financial irregularities at Leeds in 1919 , he preferred not to have anything to do with extra payments . |
| 21 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |
| 22 | But even they were n't having anything to do with me any more , after I 'd definitely detected an edge of sarcasm in the person 's voice and lost my temper and started shouting and swearing . |
| 23 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 24 | Something like ‘ I do n't have nothing to do with McCloy , I like to sleep quiet in my bed . ’ ’ |
| 25 | A pottery fireman lived opposite his wife 's parents , but because of her drinking ‘ they would n't have nothing to do with her … |
| 26 | The neighbours do n't have nothing to do with me and I only see me mam once a week or so . |
| 27 | I 'd be bored if I did n't have it to do . |
| 28 | The shop they went into would n't have anything to do with it though . |
| 29 | She wo n't have anything to do with the boy and my husband has said she used to mistreat him . |
| 30 | One thing was absolutely certain ; as it was my chest we were to chat about , it could n't have anything to do with cancer . |