Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] not do [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they could n't do was perform meaningless calculations and relate them to situations which were equally meaningless to them . |
| 2 | But there was a one day in which Frenchie Nick Nicholson erm brought all the tail-enders across and had been told the one thing he should n't do was be last he was thinking I 'm not last and behind you then he came in in front of him and he was last . |
| 3 | ‘ The only thing he could n't do was to look longingly innocent . |
| 4 | The one thing he could n't do was sell or get rid of them . |
| 5 | What it would n't do was ensure good pictures , and Herbert Wilcox saw at once that such legislation would create an ‘ awkward squad ’ of British films which would immediately become the laughing stock of the world . ’ |