Example sentences of "[noun sg] i do [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 The other piece of extra-curricular casting I did was of the young boy playing the grandson — ‘ voice like an angel ’ — Oliver .
2 ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers .
3 So the first thing I did was to spend ten years with the Royal Shakespeare Company !
4 The first thing I did was to refurbish my 1973 vehicle , of course I have kept it in good order .
5 The first thing I did was to get used to it .
6 ‘ The first thing I did was close down half the company .
7 ‘ The first thing I did was clap my hands .
8 For me , as a guitar player , the first thing I did was plug my guitar in !
9 But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’
10 I 'd read on the back of a record about open tunings , so the first thing I did was follow Elmore James and tune to D.
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke .
14 ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke .
15 They were absolutely horrid and if I went on the beach , the first thing I did was to dig a hole in the sand to put the feet in and then just stay there all day … .
16 ‘ When we arrived , the first thing I did was arrange a flight to somewhere else .
17 The first thing I did was get on the phone to her .
18 ‘ First thing I did was to try to get us organized to leave again .
19 The first thing I did was visit the capital city .
20 The first major thing I did was to have a road laid from the top , rather a long way .
21 The first thing I did was ask Posi to scan its contents .
22 With this in mind , the first thing I did was to join the Oxford Exploration Club .
23 And , unlike most story-tellers with an involvement , I was at pains to minimise my own part ; the last thing I did was boast .
24 The first thing I did was tell Harvey that the eggs and all my baggage had been stolen at the airport , but Harvey Newbegin was in one of his rich-busy-man moods and went bustling around making tutting noises for a couple of days .
25 The last thing I did was to fire the blazing stream of petrol at the buck still sitting stuffed and dead and oozing blood in the forefront of the Grounds .
26 The first show I did was in Oxford .
27 ‘ The first film I did was with these other guys who were a little camera shy , ’ recalls Rod , who has appeared in a number of Sara 's group sex films .
28 Maybe the reason I had Testified the way I did was a kind of double bhiff on Argol 's part .
29 if I do over X number of miles and of course the mileage I did was , was way in excess
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