Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been spot on his wavelength for I never left the quiet room after one of his healings without a sense , almost of VROOOOM ! |
| 2 | So I think , if I 've got ta say , mum 's I should say was maternity which you , they were very , very political animals . |
| 3 | That was the last , , I should have been market trader , been shouting out that voice and |
| 4 | What I might do is steal credit cards and use them . |
| 5 | She said something to me , a simple introduction , but all I could do was stare open-mouthed at her . |
| 6 | I wanted to run out and scream , but Mum had the key and all I could do was stand stock still , listening to the thumping of my heart . |
| 7 | All I could do was watch television . |
| 8 | ‘ All I could do was scream down the phone — God knows what the listeners made of it . ’ |
| 9 | But all I could do was wrestle with the lunging hind foot , dressing the infected cleft with a crude mixture of copper sulphate and Stockholm tar and finishing with a pad of cotton wool held by a tight bandage . |
| 10 | Well when , when Friar Lawrence returned when he was meant to be giving the letter to Romeo , I was just devastated , I did I just did n't know what to do so all I could do was rush down to the graveyard and try and stop Romeo , by the time I was there it was too late . |
| 11 | The idea of God pursuing a whole family like a demented genealogist seemed grossly unfair , but as it was a commandment all I could do was hope that neither my father nor any of my immediate ancestors had done anything really sinful , and that if they had , God did n't know of my relationship . |
| 12 | Is that what she was like ? ’ and all I could do was say well , no , not at all … but that was the licence you got at the NME , because the most important word in the paper is I . ’ |
| 13 | All I could do was shake my head . |
| 14 | All I could do was dig it out . |
| 15 | ‘ All I could do was lie on the bed ’ , she says , ‘ it made me feel very ill and because of that I felt slightly depressed . |
| 16 | All I could do was pile up small bits of information hoping it would make an understandable structure one day . |
| 17 | Tonight all I could do was make sure of Crispin . |
| 18 | ‘ I was so tired by that time that all I could do was sit in a deck-chair on the sea-front and sleep all day , but it was enough . ’ |
| 19 | The only thing I could do was sit outside his house on the doorstep . |
| 20 | All I could do was stay silent . |
| 21 | He was a tall , heavy-built almost surly type who spoke no English ; all I could do was listen patiently , smile , and offer a small but polite salute on departure . |
| 22 | All I could do was keep dropping hints , trying to get it through to you that we were going through something incredible together . ’ |
| 23 | All I could do was shout at Gabrielle and frighten her . |
| 24 | I tried to feel sorry for her , but all I could feel was envy . |
| 25 | I wo , well she was awake in the middle of the night , I do n't know what time it was but all I could hear was mummy , mummy , mummy ! |
| 26 | We finished our meal in silence , and when I looked out of the window , all I could see was darkness and snow . |
| 27 | Apart from the desklamp that was shining in my face , all I could see was darkness . |
| 28 | Now all I could see was spray . |
| 29 | All I could see was Death , beckoning and grinning before me . |
| 30 | And er the car arrives I looked all I could see was mother sitting in the car and puffing this smoke puffing out through the window |