Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] i could do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lemurs are a delicacy in Madagascar and it was all I could do to stop my fellow passengers eating them , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 3 | It was all I could do to keep my feet . ’ |
| 4 | She was heavy and it was all I could do not to let her slide through my arms . |
| 5 | It was all I could do to stop myself from shaking her until her neat white teeth rattled . |
| 6 | it was all I could do to get home . |
| 7 | ‘ My heart was racing so uncontrollably that it was all I could do to say anything at all , ’ she told him . |