Example sentences of "i do [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I do n't know I , you see I left I had to come here so I left before Bob Monkhouse and everything , I just , I , all I did was go for couple of free drinks and plate of free food , which , I do n't think I got . |
| 2 | What I did was to wait for him to unbolt the door , which opens outwards . |
| 3 | What I did was to teeter from side to side like a tall mast on a small ship in a heavy sea . |
| 4 | As I said , what I did was dictated by necessity . |
| 5 | All I did was looking in the windows . |
| 6 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 7 | The first thing I did was get on the phone to her . |
| 8 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |