Example sentences of "[adj] had do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , Niki could n't stand him personally — and this had to do with a clash of personalities , the Argentine being in every respect the antithesis of Niki — and in the second , the Ferrari tactic was quite clear : if Niki does n't recover , we get rid of him . |
| 2 | Gedanken did n't see what this had to do with her being made of stardust — or whatever it was her uncle had said . |
| 3 | This is one person who ca n't be quoted , but apparently this had to do with the description of John Major during that leadership crisis . |
| 4 | By 1914 Unionists again really believed in their cause , as few had done in 1911 . |
| 5 | The pressure of higher salaries , labour shortages and office rents was by 1989 causing more government departments to think of moving sections of work to the North , as some had done in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 6 | Another reason for expecting fundholders ' referral rates to fall after April 1991 had to do with the way in which their budgets were set . |
| 7 | Some of these had to do with the importance of status distinctions . |
| 8 | Could he ruffle the smugness of manufacturing Whigs and land-owning Tories alike by reminding them of what hands such as these had done in France ? |
| 9 | It thus became impossible for any king in future to prolong indefinitely the life of a complaisant House of Commons , as Charles II had done with the ‘ Cavalier Parliament ’ of 1661–79 . |
| 10 | Such a belief did not necessarily entail an uncritical acceptance of everything James II had done as King . |
| 11 | Country-Tory Jacobites in Parliament , whilst critical of what James II had done as King , nevertheless maintained that a restoration of the ancient constitution required a restoration of the right line . |
| 12 | Anyone sitting down for extensive periods ( as we all had to do in our school days ) would have to tense many of the body 's muscles in order to sit up straight . |
| 13 | No me mother she she did work hard well we all had to do in them days . |
| 14 | The rest would have understood the warning , and the plot , whatever its form , would have fizzled out , as so many had done over the years . |
| 15 | Four years later Agate was surprised that the film version of J. M. Barrie 's A kiss for Cinderella was so good and in particular that the acting of the American star Betty Bronson had equalled the stage performance of Miss Hilda Trevelyan for what the latter had done with her voice ‘ this little screen actress does with her eyes , which are the windows of as lovable a soul as was ever born into the world of make-believe . |
| 16 | Thwarted in his attempts to cause a shortage of coal in London by attacking Newcastle , as the Dutch had done in 1667 when they controlled the Thames estuary , Jones did what he could to disrupt the coastal trade . |
| 17 | He knew he must have been knocked out , and he wondered just how much damage the oriental had done to him . |
| 18 | The Washington statement was issued at 5 p.m. local time and rocked the United States as little had done since the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and of Martin Luther King . |
| 19 | You did n't have to tell Claire , Annabel or me about Nanny 's cold hands ; we had suffered from them most of our lives , but what that had to do with pastry was what Father described as a ‘ female mystery ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ A Sagittarius , ’ Claudia said , wondering what that had to do with anything . |
| 21 | The immediate choice of king by those Northumbrians responsible for the murder of Aethelred was the ‘ patrician ’ , Osbald , but others recalled Eardwulf , son of Eardwulf , from exile and after only twenty-seven days the royal household and nobles deserted Osbald and he was forced to flee , sailing from Lindisfarne to the kingdom of the Picts as Alhred had done from Bamburgh before him . |