Example sentences of "not [vb infin] have anything to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether that man is the prime minister , modifying his opinions to catch votes , or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention , that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him , any more than I want to eat canned salmon . |
| 2 | The notion that we do not have to have anything to do with those who want to smoke is odious , as my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , West and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) has said . |
| 3 | If , as everyone now insists , Noah had made up his mind not to continue as Davis Cup captain well before the match against Switzerland , then the decision can not have had anything to do with his obvious annoyance that , in his eyes , neither Henri Leconte or Guy Forget had properly prepared for the tie . |
| 4 | The effects may not seem to have anything to do with the work , but if disunity and depression occur it 's quite likely that there is an unseen cause . |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't want to have anything to do with it . |
| 6 | We do n't want to have anything to do with you . |
| 7 | I do n't want to have anything to do with it . ’ |
| 8 | Er , particularly since it was only half right , or you could n't exactly tell which half , not very clearly , so if it 's half by Freud , and er , it was a book erm , on erm , a controversial figure arguing over very controversial pieces , and I think the psychoanalytic study did n't want to have anything to do with it , and er , er , one of the reviews of the psychoanalytic journal that said that this is the kind of book that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 9 | It was almost as if he did n't want to have anything to do with her . |
| 10 | You might charitably allow an Academic with spellcasting powers an Int test ( with a -25 penalty ) to recognize that this ritual does n't seem to have anything to do with travel , but does have quite a lot to do with death and blood . |
| 11 | Furthermore , although it is smaller , there is an area that corresponds to Broca 's area in the right hemisphere that does n't seem to have anything to do with speech but which seems to have many of the same connections . |
| 12 | The only things that might have been classed as narrative were the poems , and they did n't seem to have anything to do with each other , apart from the fact a lot of them seemed to be vaguely about Death , or Love . |