Example sentences of "it had [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had something to do with the black market and ration-books and the Men From The Ministry . |
| 2 | It had something to do with history and the past , that excitement , and something to do with potential as well , with what Orwell or somebody had said , that every man really knew in his heart the finest place to be was the countryside on a summer 's day . |
| 3 | I knew it had something to do with weddings ! |
| 4 | Originally , the abridged talk in Davis 's recording had seemed to be a sensible compromise , yet looking back I can see that it had something to do with the partial dissatisfaction expressed in my review of the reissue : ‘ the total effect is more of a divertissement than of opéra-comique ’ . |
| 5 | He would n't go into details over the phone but he said it had something to do with Bernard . |
| 6 | It had something to do with his tone . |
| 7 | It had something to do with order , she decided ; Joyce mistrusted books for their content , but liked the way they could be marshalled . |
| 8 | Maybe it had something to do with the other dreams — the dreams of dead , dark lands and of huge , brilliant webs , stretched out like stringed beads , burning in the darkness of the sky . |
| 9 | Or else the poor woman could n't help the way she looked ; perhaps it had something to do with those finely arched eyebrows of hers . |
| 10 | Foolish , she knew ; perhaps it had something to do with the leprechauns . |
| 11 | ‘ It had something to do with it , yes . ’ |
| 12 | The one occasion on which the Government did not cheat on the payments was earlier this year and we hoped that it had something to do with the Adjournment debate . |
| 13 | I ca n't help thinking it had something to do with Angy 's murder , but we 'll never know now . |
| 14 | it had something to do with apricots , I thought , |
| 15 | ‘ Are you telling me Billy was here Sunday night , and it had something to do with animals . |
| 16 | But I am ready to bet that it had something to do with the trajectory , the pathway through the real-life equivalent of Biomorph Land , that would have to be traversed in order to turn the retina the right way round , starting from whatever ancestral organ preceded the eye . |
| 17 | Maybe it had something to do with Arnie . |
| 18 | It had something to do with opening his eyes and looking into her eyes . |
| 19 | Perhaps it had something to do with Anna , whom she 'd come to love , or with the serenity and beauty of the palace . |
| 20 | But Gascoigne sacked Jane in April — no reason given , though Jane suspects it had something to do with the fact his girlfriend did n't like her . |
| 21 | Mhm aye it had something to do with it lot of lot of henhouses and that blown away . |
| 22 | while I was sitting from here I could erm see it had something stuck on it . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | It had nothing to do with friendships though . |
| 25 | ‘ It had nothing to do with security , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ It had nothing to do with security , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The government says it had nothing to do with the case . |
| 28 | No , it had nothing to do with the heart . |
| 29 | It had nothing to do with Goths and Vandals , and was not exclusively a church architecture , nor was it ‘ the badge of some particular ecclesiastical party ’ . |
| 30 | At first father was unwilling … it had nothing to do with school , he said . |