Example sentences of "all i have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I had to do was ask for directions . |
| 2 | There was one about 1930s radio shows : All I had to do was hear your voice , All at once I knew I had no choice … |
| 3 | The part was quite easy because all I had to do was stand about and wag my tail . |
| 4 | He put himself right before every one of them , and he was so intelligent at the job that all I had to do was to ride him quietly and let him jump without fussing him . ’ |
| 5 | I told him it was easy : all I had to do was quote the people who lived there . |
| 6 | All I had to do was to gain confidence in that fact , and abracadabra I would become ‘ normal ’ . |
| 7 | So far so good ; now all I had to do was to muck up my second throw and ‘ Jaz ’ would be the winner . |
| 8 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 9 | Now all I had to do was wait . |
| 10 | All I had to do was go there and arrest you . |
| 11 | All I had to do was make like a patient in a sanatorium . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought all I had to do was get you a valid passport and we 'd be safe . ’ |
| 13 | All I had to do was to train chicks on either methylanthranilate or water and hand them over to Roger , who would disappear into the neurophysiology lab with them and emerge many hours later with reams of paper which he would begin to analyse . |
| 14 | ‘ I dare say , ’ said Constance , ‘ that I 'd wear a smile on my face if all I had to do was lie around all day and every now and then chase a bit of fluff round a dog track . |
| 15 | All I had to do was to ferry myself out to her in the inflatable dinghy , with a jerrican of water and a bag of fresh vegetables , eggs , and some rashers of bacon . |
| 16 | He was offering me the trip of a lifetime , and all I had to do was take care of the meals . |
| 17 | All I had to do was step backwards . |
| 18 | All I had to do was squeeze the button when someone emerged from the tower . |
| 19 | All I had to do was stand around pretending to pull on one end of a tug-of war rope while a load of peers pulled on the other , as Jerry stood by attracting the tabloids ' photographers . |
| 20 | All I had to do was turn the van around and wait . |
| 21 | All I had to do now was give them back . |
| 22 | But all seemed to go well for me as I climbed from boat to boat successfully , and then all I had to do was get to the wall from the last boat . |
| 23 | all I had to do was dance there anyway back to the other side . |
| 24 | and er , so all I had to do was the tenons really and , and at least you know that they 're symmetrical |
| 25 | I 'd be alright as long as I could go on a route where all I had to do was turn left but as soon as I turn right |
| 26 | Yeah , that was all I had to report thank you . |
| 27 | When your sister died it was all I had to hold on to . |
| 28 | In the end , all I had to go on was the gallery itself . |
| 29 | ‘ The entries in his diary were all I had to go on . |
| 30 | ‘ All I had to go on was the very clear excitement you displayed in that conversation on the plane . |