Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb mod] do [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought what I 'd do was I 'd have a bath , I thought I 'd put all the back in the fridge |
| 2 | What I used to do was to get hold of them behind their hand . |
| 3 | While I was in a single room , what I used to do was get hold of sani towels and put my dog ends in and let them smoulder and wave them out the hatch . |
| 4 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 5 | What she would do was write a note of apology , giving her name and address and telephone number , and secure it behind one of the Bentley 's windscreen wipers . |
| 6 | What she would do was exit with as much style as possible , given the situation . |
| 7 | Perhaps , in spite of the fact that she did need the money , what she ought to do was just catch the first plane back home . |
| 8 | But knowing what she ought to do was one thing — putting it into action seemed to be quite another . |
| 9 | What she must do was concentrate on getting her memory back so that she could get home to them as soon as humanly possible . |
| 10 | What you ought to do was to said to him give me a deposit |
| 11 | moving off the shelves and into the shop and , what we would do was erm deli people now do er , stock an order by computer and , and people like Sainsburys were doing that in the seventies , you know , and they would actually work over er work on erm data erm , from their computer and order er erm you know , okay , they 'd be an event at the weekend or something and they 'd , they 'd of , increase it or something , but they would technically work out exactly what the throughput of certain items were . |
| 12 | No , that was what we used to do were n't it ? |
| 13 | ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’ |
| 14 | What he would do was lend Haynes 500 , on a very short-term basis . |