Example sentences of "to do with his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This degree of self-inflicted pain , which might be something to do with his opium , clearly though is starting to challenge his conceptions about himself , and therefore about the world . |
| 2 | You see , what the angler has to do with his bait is to make it imitate as nearly as possible the conditions of nature . |
| 3 | So while his real need for me had something to do with prac-ticalities , he reinforced in me the sense that his need had something to do with his sister 's death . |
| 4 | Frederick Cranko 's family , who had disapproved of his marrying a Jew , would have nothing to do with his widow . |
| 5 | All I can remember is that it had nothing to do with his feet . |
| 6 | Friends considered him so depressed during this period that they were even beginning to think the unthinkable — that he might give up and turn his back on society and all its ills , and do what he would have really chosen to do with his life : be a country squire . |
| 7 | He said he was unhappy and needed to think about what he was going to do with his life . |
| 8 | In general terms , however , the present state of the law is that an individual who has reached the age of 18 is free to do with his life what he wishes , but it is the duty of the court to ensure so far as it can that children survive to attain that age . |
| 9 | He had been back from his travels for a while , staying first in London then at Lochgair , while he tried to work out what to do with his life . |
| 10 | At twenty-four , with his father and sister newly dead , he plans what to do with his life should his mother die as well : he would sell up everything and live in Rome , Syracuse or Naples . |
| 11 | Mr Nichol , formerly of Regal Drive , Darlington , said he had no idea what he now intended to do with his life . |
| 12 | James Bridie had the Anglo-Scots summed up , though nothing to do with his work on those notorious Edinburgh grave-robbers , Burke and Hare . |
| 13 | In Bradshaw v Rugby Portland Cement Ltd , 1972 IRLR 8 , although the offence was of a serious nature , the tribunal recommended re-engagement because ( 1 ) the offence had nothing to do with his work , ( 2 ) he was not brought into contact with female staff , ( 3 ) the nature of the offence was unlikely to upset his relationships with his workmates — a gang of men — and ( 4 ) it did not expose anyone to ‘ moral danger ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , it 's a personal thing , Greg , nothing to do with his work . ’ |
| 15 | In view of what he has said , I deeply regret having called him , I think on Question 2 , to ask a question about the Northumbria police which had nothing to do with his constituency . |
| 16 | What had Christ 's gospel of renunciation to do with his parents ' comfortable parsonage ? |
| 17 | There is no conception in Adorno of listeners coproducing musical meaning directly , at the moment of creation ; clearly this has to do with his undervaluing of performance and overvaluing of the written score , as well as with the centrality in his thinking of a relatively narrow , homogeneous musical culture , in which variations in musical interpretation were not significant . |
| 18 | It is nothing to do with his love life or his own business but a lot of money is involved . ’ |
| 19 | Most people on the ‘ Carry Ons ’ seemed to think that it was quite nice having Ken around , which assuredly had a lot to do with his love of the series . |
| 20 | The working class adolescent of the 60s had quite a job deciding what to do with his hair . |
| 21 | Something to do with his chest ? |
| 22 | I think it 's partly to do with his admiration for the language , and also his background as both a reported and a writer . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ Doctor Staples said , ‘ it would be unscientific to assume that this had anything to do with his lung collapse . |
| 24 | He 's got this thing to do with his computer when he can get hold of it to get the computer |
| 25 | ‘ It had nothing to do with his homosexuality , ’ she maintains . |
| 26 | Lord 's fitness had a lot to do with his rally from a 2-0 deficit in games but Newton did not help his cause by incurring numerous conduct penalty points . |
| 27 | It has nothing to do with his looks — he is unlikely to be mistaken for a ‘ white shark ’ — but his misfortune . |
| 28 | The truth is that Clinton 's sex appeal is nothing to do with his looks . |
| 29 | Keith , the department head , is keeping quiet , but makes it plain that the second half of June is his , arguably having something to do with his secretary , Debbie , and a certain destination in Latin America . |
| 30 | We do n't usually get this much hands-on attention from him , but I suspect that Cavell Fielding has something to do with his presence as he 's lending us her talents for the launch of our new look — or sound , I should say . |