Example sentences of "[noun sg] she did be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sarah got back to the attic bedroom in Newcastle Place the first thing she did was open the window , letting in damp , wintry air . |
| 2 | She got her assignment , and the first thing she did was leave her area and roam around the rest of the organization , talking it over with nearly everyone she could find , regardless of field , looking for new directions , new perspectives , new ways to approach it — so what she could bring back would be new and creative . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 4 | It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again . |
| 5 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |