Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] do 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All she had to do was refuse to be provoked . |
| 12 | All you had to do was drive off the ferry , find the main road , and drive straight to Dublin . |
| 13 | What you had to do was listen for the echo not the report itself . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When all they needed to do was lift up the phone and have a quiet word . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | All they had done was look at each other and exchange a few very prosaic words , yet something magical was happening . |
| 20 | All he had to do was wait until dusk , and then go out with the tide . |
| 21 | 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 . |