Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season . |
| 2 | I painted all mine white with some paint I had left over from an Airfix model of Apollo 11 but all I managed to do was clog up the mechanism . |
| 3 | The part was quite easy because all I had to do was stand about and wag my tail . |
| 4 | All I had to do was stand around pretending to pull on one end of a tug-of war rope while a load of peers pulled on the other , as Jerry stood by attracting the tabloids ' photographers . |
| 5 | All I had to do was make like a patient in a sanatorium . |
| 6 | Allen claimed last night : ‘ The last thing I wanted to do was go to court . |
| 7 | What I wanted to do was shout into the telephone , and curse , and maybe cry a little . |
| 8 | And we 're staying with football now , we 've got one more match report to give you ; the Oxfordshire Senior Cup third round , most of those matches were called off , but one which did survive was Headington against Thame , and a good result for Headington ; they won by two goals to nil . |
| 9 | For over a century the medieval churches which remained had been museums in the care of the European Sector , but it had proved impossible to balance their antiquarian value against the considerable costs of allowing religious practice to take place within them . |
| 10 | But all she 'd had were roles in forgettable TV shows and minor movies . |
| 11 | Now I do n't know if you remember English Whites but Danny Baker once had a caller to 606 who claimed to have been setup for a blind date a few years ago , and when he met the girl in question , one of his mates says ‘ Bloody hell she does n't half look like that player ( Kenny ) who 's in the Blues ’ ( Brum City where he built his stout reputation ) . |
| 12 | All she had to do was look at the champagne the way she looked at me and you 'd be able to skate on it . |
| 13 | It was n't catwalk modelling , it was a private showing ; all she had to do was stroll through the small showroom , mount a carpeted platform faced with mirrors , look elegant and disinterested while the sheikh 's wives made their selections . |
| 14 | And when they seemed too beguiling , all she had to do was think of Victoria , and Victoria 's dress account , and Victoria riding with him , and the woman he was meeting tonight — ten to one that was Victoria too . |
| 15 | All she had to do was refuse to be provoked . |
| 16 | All you had to do was drive off the ferry , find the main road , and drive straight to Dublin . |
| 17 | What you had to do was listen for the echo not the report itself . |
| 18 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 19 | The treatment which she refused to undergo was treatment at a London hospital which specialises in the treatment of eating disorders . |
| 20 | When all they needed to do was lift up the phone and have a quiet word . |
| 21 | The ideal book , he thought , for teaching would-be converts systematically what they needed to know was Augustine of Hippo 's De Rudibus Catechizandis . |
| 22 | When the Syrians said , ‘ We do n't know where the hostages are but we 'll be glad to help locate them , ’ all they had to do was pick up the phone . |
| 23 | There was a tradition in Wales that when club or country wanted a front row forward all they had to do was stand at the pit head and whistle . |
| 24 | Many fans believed all they had to do was hand over the ticket stub for the Latvia game to get one for the visit of Jack Charlton 's men — that plainly is not the case . |
| 25 | All they had done was look at each other and exchange a few very prosaic words , yet something magical was happening . |
| 26 | The officers ' comments about what they had seen were observations of association between W and others , but in no case was any act shown on W's part which could be regarded as an overt act in respect of the conspiracy charge . |
| 27 | For whatever reason , Neil , who had almost looked forward to relieving his body 's urgent demands — he seemed to have been continent for years , and McAllister 's arrival in Vetch Street had most inconveniently revived his dormant senses — found that he was disgusted with himself most of all . |
| 28 | All he had to do was wait until dusk , and then go out with the tide . |
| 29 | I think it was a great relief for him to think that Tony DeFries would deal with things and all he had to do was deal with his artistry . |
| 30 | But the woman he had held was dust in a sea-girt grave , his love buried with her . |