Example sentences of "[pron] do be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She do n't want to be on her own , even at night , so what I done was drag my mattress and sleeping bag into her room , and that 's where I 'm sleeping now — on her floor . |
| 2 | What I do is chop the luncheon meat into cubes just big enough for a size 8 or 10 hook and mix them with damp groundbait . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have been a prize-winning shot and all I did was stand here like a fool . |
| 4 | ‘ All I did was think of it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |
| 6 | All I did was wash up and we did n't do anything else . |
| 7 | All I did was fall in the water ! ’ |
| 8 | Now all I did was park my car in the garden centre , buy a small cactus and walk across the road to X-ray . |
| 9 | All I did was look . |
| 10 | ‘ The first thing I did was clap my hands . |
| 11 | ‘ What I did was try to bring my experience in Italy to English football and some of the players appreciated what I was doing and enjoyed working with me . |
| 12 | You 've just said yourself that all I did was try the windows . |
| 13 | ‘ All I did was try to help him ! ’ |
| 14 | For me , as a guitar player , the first thing I did was plug my guitar in ! |
| 15 | And , unlike most story-tellers with an involvement , I was at pains to minimise my own part ; the last thing I did was boast . |
| 16 | and he had a crowbar and that well I never did anything all I did was stop in me van |
| 17 | ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke . |
| 18 | ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke . |
| 19 | Because I would be very bored if all I did was administration . |
| 20 | All I did was mention sabotage . |
| 21 | So the first thing I did was distil it down to seven pages of figures accompanied by seven pages of narrative , designed to make sure that the board was properly informed . |
| 22 | The first thing I did was visit the capital city . |
| 23 | All I did was walk across the room and pull that curtain off him . ’ |
| 24 | I used to really go down there and all I did was sort of tick off what the lads had already done . |
| 25 | In fact the first thing I did was ring my 35-year-old daughter who has been a ‘ fitness freak ’ ever since Jane Fonda took to jumping about our TV screens and warned her not to overdo it if she intended to buy the tape — which I am certain she does . |
| 26 | I mean , all I did were leave book and ask them to check it . |
| 27 | All she done is S's . |
| 28 | ‘ All I 'm forcing you to do is face reality . |
| 29 | Three who did were Edith and Egbert Rose and Auguste , almost forcibly pushed in by a desperate Mr Multhrop . |
| 30 | What you did was press , if it was water like Just plenty of water and then put that in . |