Example sentences of "that he [vb past] nothing to do " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , in a remarkable episode , El Cid is said to have forced Alfonso to swear an oath on sacred relics to the effect that he had nothing to do with his brother 's murder .
2 But when she saw his look of mingled amazement and indignation , she knew beyond a doubt that he had nothing to do with it .
3 It was n't the nigger 's fault that he had nothing to do for the moment .
4 He was tried and executed , protesting that he had nothing to do with the affair .
5 But I 'd just like everyone to know for Daddy 's sake that he had nothing to do with it .
6 In ‘ The disappearance ’ , Imamu has to prove that he had nothing to do with Perk 's disappearance by finding her dead body in someone else 's house having been murdered by that person and Boo has to risk his own life in order to save that of Scout 's before his most ignorant neighbours realise he 's not a squirrel eating monster .
7 Even more extreme was Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson , who straightforwardly stated that he wanted nothing to do with blacks : ‘ I 've never let the fact that my father was Nigerian [ his mother was Scottish ] interfere with me .
8 I said that I accepted that maybe he hated me and that he wanted nothing to do with me .
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