Example sentences of "do was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 2 | Everything he had done was for this final purpose , " that I might dwell among them " ( Exodus 29:43–46 ) . |
| 3 | Everything he had ever done was for the woman he could not forget . |
| 4 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 5 | The MPs said the only firing they had done was on two US teenagers — children of Panama Canal Commission employees . |
| 6 | The British Steel Challenge inspired him , too , although the only sailing he had ever done was on a windsurfer . |
| 7 | This , according to the Nationalist , was nonsense : all the paper had done was to ‘ extol Kambona 's ego ’ ; the article ‘ excelled in lies and innuendo ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | How could they say , as they all did , frequently and sanctimoniously , that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children ? |
| 10 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 11 | Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett continued to insist that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 12 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 13 | There was an immediate loss of power and all I could do was to crash-land the aircraft . |
| 14 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 15 | All she had to do was cross a couple of wires and George would become just another victim of a tragic domestic ‘ accident ’ . |
| 16 | But really , what , all they wanted to do was save face from the hospital because it was n't our fault but she used a bit of you know , we wo n't embarrass the hospital we 'll say |
| 17 | The other bearers took the traditional view that the right thing to do was for Yussuf to get rid of her and find another one ; but for reasons known only to himself Yussuf was reluctant to do this . |
| 18 | So far so good ; now all I had to do was to muck up my second throw and ‘ Jaz ’ would be the winner . |
| 19 | Kevin had exposed the connection with the previous pipe , so the easiest thing to do was to carefully break the pipe at the connector , and cut the other end about 100mm away from the hardcore . |
| 20 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 21 | What he had to do was to " live apart from men , as far as the needs of the body allow … continually upheld by him whom I love " ( 31.142 ) . |
| 22 | Well , the thing is what 's happening , I thought we might spend some time on if wanted , what I wanted to do was to be sure in my own mind that by the second week I could put up a master sheet with all the headings of what you were doing , that 's got ta be done . |
| 23 | What you ought to do was to said to him give me a deposit |
| 24 | Well the Solicitors turned round and said to him that there 's a twenty five per cent chance he 'll lose his licence , but then he 'll get there erm , but most he 'll probably get is about a month , and then he said , well surely your job could find you something to do in that time , has said , no licence , no job , so what he had to do was to . |
| 25 | between a lot of parked cars and there was a , I was coming down the road and all I needed to do was to actually stop where I was cos there was enough room on his side of the road for him to come past the parked car and round me |
| 26 | Well , after the er publishers had approached me and , and asked me if I would be interested in doing this book er the next thing to do was actually get hold of all the Ordinance Survey maps for Oxfordshire , er you know , quite a big county , so er once we 'd done that er the next thing to do was to actually just work out exactly where we wanted the walks to be , and they 've obviously , for commercial reasons they 've got to be fairly evenly spread throughout the county , but you can tell quite quickly and quite easily by looking at an Ordinance Survey map , you know , where all the paths are , they 're all clearly marked , er public footpaths , public bridleways , that sort of thing , and the next step was to actually create from the maps , circular walks to fit in with the requirement . |
| 27 | He knew that it 's a sin against himself , his own soul , he knew that what he was doing was against justice , it was against the advice of his wife , it was against everything within him and yet he still pursues this , this cause of having Jesus put to death . |
| 28 | The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers . |
| 29 | It was , in fact , just a peculiarly rich and extended example , and the kind of thing I was doing was in principle applicable to great numbers of texts . |
| 30 | And the kind of thing I was doing was in principle applicable to great numbers of texts . |