Example sentences of "i [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 . |