Example sentences of "nothing to do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't the nigger 's fault that he had nothing to do for the moment . |
| 2 | Especially in a village like Markham cum Cumbermound with nothing to do for kids in the evening . ’ |
| 3 | now we are down that far , so I did everything so I 've nothing to do for them this morning , just sit there |
| 4 | There is nothing to do about being damned . |
| 5 | Now that has nothing to do about whether our children will get a better or a worse education if the school is opted out . |
| 6 | There was a pause , before Simon said with a smile , ‘ Well , that 's a bit difficult ; there 's nothing to do between elections . ’ |
| 7 | And I get bored with nothing to do on holiday but lie in the sun . ’ |
| 8 | Lots of chaps with pink coats will have nothing to do on winter mornings unless we let 'em come repossessin' with us . |
| 9 | of course , if the vacancy requirements fluctuate as well , as is the case with contractors , a kind of see-saw effect sets in with the recruitment team oscillating between periods of intense activity and chaos on the one hand , and having nothing to do on the other hand . |
| 10 | Do you know , we sat on that beach all day Thursday , it was really boring , there was nothing to do on Thursday . |
| 11 | No more German targets to bomb , nothing to do except circuits and bumps , navigation trips and map reading . |
| 12 | A Pentagon official said last night : ‘ A lot of fellas were stuck in the desert with nothing to do except what comes naturally . |
| 13 | A Pentagon official said last night : ‘ A lot of fellas were stuck in the desert with nothing to do except what comes naturally . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
| 16 | Paradoxically , Loiseau originally wanted nothing to do with cooking . |
| 17 | ‘ Geoffrey did n't care that we were poor , it was nothing to do with that . |
| 18 | I suppose all this henthusiasm has nothing to do with the fact that he 's a very handsome young man , has it ? ’ |
| 19 | ( In the air this is nothing to do with the actual wind . |
| 20 | It 's nothing to do with coming , it 's everything to do with intoxication , flesh-frenzy , reckless rampant effervescent fever . |
| 21 | ‘ But that 's got nothing to do with it … ’ |
| 22 | It 's nothing to do with you . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's nothing to do with anything . |
| 25 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 26 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 27 | There is no light and shade and this way of using the pointes has nothing to do with giving a finishing touch to such dances as those fur Petipa 's Aurora and the Six Fairies in The Sleeping Beauty to make them seem lighter than air . |
| 28 | He is absent yet meticulous , paying for a missing drink-shop teaspoon which has nothing to do with him , and spending a long time in the ‘ interesting occupation ’ of trying to catch a fly . |
| 29 | When Svidrigailov and Porfiry , who never meet — bold again — and who have nothing to do with each other , both tell Raskolnikov that a man needs air , my business is to try and suggest how it is that Dostoevsky 's reader finds himself in immediate dual touch with a Petersburg july day and a universal truth . |
| 30 | However , in the novel 's final text the shapka becomes a peaked cap ( kartuz ) and Shaposhnikov 's name gets changed to Shatov which has nothing to do with caps or hats at all . |