Example sentences of "nothing do [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I get bored with nothing to do on holiday but lie in the sun . ’ |
| 2 | Lots of chaps with pink coats will have nothing to do on winter mornings unless we let 'em come repossessin' with us . |
| 3 | But , despite her hunger , she took as long as possible over the simple meal , desperately trying to stave off the moment when they would have nothing to do except talk or sleep . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I never remember a fight with more than two people involved with the rest of us encouraging them usually , holding their coats until the police stepped in to break it up , and these scuffles normally had nothing to do with loyalty to rival teams . ’ |
| 6 | But what 's happening here has nothing to do with loyalty or belief . ’ |
| 7 | A comment of interest , when subscriptions to pay for the bell were not forthcoming appears in the Church magazine : " This is a matter which the Non-conformist might reasonably be expected to support , a fine peal of bells is something for all inhabitants of Halling to be proud of , they are rung on many occasions , which have nothing to do with church services " . |
| 8 | Common sense suggests that the real risk of audit failure has nothing to do with independence . |
| 9 | Common sense suggests that the real risk of audit failure has nothing to do with independence . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's nothing to do with pay , sir . ’ |
| 11 | But more often than not these decisions are made for reasons which have little or nothing to do with creativity . |
| 12 | Whatever the true origins of grammatical gender , it can not be true that it has nothing to do with sex . |
| 13 | From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . |
| 14 | But he winced at that , and she thought , this has nothing to do with ego , and continued , ‘ I 'm thinking that really the big difference is that it must make it more difficult to handle things . |
| 15 | The main purpose of the pro-am has nothing to do with golf . |
| 16 | The reason you want to see his lordship has nothing to do with gratitude and you know it . |
| 17 | If it is thought to be preferable , this is for reasons having nothing to do with neutrality , such as a desire to bring the war to a speedy end or not to allow people to profit from wars . |
| 18 | It 's nothing to do with hay fever is it , this , do you think ? |
| 19 | While I suspect that it has absolutely nothing to do with tennis matters , ( although I will seek to justify its inclusion in this column in a moment ) , one thing I have never understood is why long haul flights in airlines are often so much cheaper than those for far shorter journeys . |
| 20 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
| 21 | But your levels are perfect , okay , it 's got nothing to do with lithium . |
| 22 | A psychopathic killer had nothing to do with happiness , either . |
| 23 | Perhaps , then , the stripes have nothing to do with defence against predators . |
| 24 | What she said to me on the subject of the race riots and how she felt in that context makes me think that this stage in her life was nothing to do with race . |
| 25 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 26 | We are talking about living communities : dynamic , changing ; subject to pressures which have nothing to do with agriculture ; but imposing on other aspects of life constraints which arise from involvement in agriculture . |
| 27 | The best-selling sexually explicit blockbuster phenomenon is to do with money , nothing to do with literature . |
| 28 | Exemplifying the way that lazy speaking leads to lazy writing ( nothing to do with dialect , this ) it began one sentence : ‘ Whever as a mid-day snack or an evening bite ’ Whether it meant to put it like this is unlikely . |
| 29 | Nothing to do with surrealism |
| 30 | And he said , but he 's nothing to do with Surrealism , which I expect is true that he did n't belong to the party but then perhaps Spaniards are , in any case , basically surrealist . |