Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] do [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr McCreary told the tribunal : ‘ As she was leaving my office , she said : ‘ I suppose what I should have done was take the time off sick anyway . |
| 2 | Being wise after the event , I realise now that what I should have done was to ask the jury to retire so that a formula could have been discussed and agreed upon , which would have disposed of the matter satisfactorily . |
| 3 | But what I should have done was measured that , that would have been about forty nine centimetres , this 'd be out maybe |
| 4 | My friends said she 's trouble and the last thing I should have done was let her move in and I was a bloody fool not to believe them . |
| 5 | Erm and one of the things I could 've done was to em er become a salaried employee of my own company which was a limited company but I paid myself as a consultant . |
| 6 | I just could n't stand the cold any more … all I 'd have to do was roll over the side … it was time to end it all … anything would be better than this ! |
| 7 | What she should have done was obey the voice that told her to pass right along the car . |
| 8 | The last thing she could afford to do was cry , because if she started she might never stop . |
| 9 | The first thing she would have to do was to raise some capital so that she could rescue something from the dregs of her father 's business . |
| 10 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 11 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |