Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] was " 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 | Our solicitors had prepared the necessary ‘ instruments ’ , and all Karen and I had to do was ‘ execute ’ them , but when we emerged into the mild sunshine of Beaumont Street twenty minutes later , my life had been changed out of all recognition . |
| 7 | What I had to do was go back to the town centre and … |
| 8 | All I had to do was to gain confidence in that fact , and abracadabra I would become ‘ normal ’ . |
| 9 | So far so good ; now all I had to do was to muck up my second throw and ‘ Jaz ’ would be the winner . |
| 10 | Now all I had to do was wait . |
| 11 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 12 | All I had to do was go there and arrest you . |
| 13 | All I had to do was make like a patient in a sanatorium . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought all I had to do was get you a valid passport and we 'd be safe . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was offering me the trip of a lifetime , and all I had to do was take care of the meals . |
| 19 | All I had to do was step backwards . |
| 20 | All I had to do was squeeze the button when someone emerged from the tower . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All I had to do was turn the van around and wait . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | all I had to do was dance there anyway back to the other side . |
| 25 | and er , so all I had to do was the tenons really and , and at least you know that they 're symmetrical |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | ‘ All I had to say was your name , and it was all over . |
| 28 | All I had to eat was some chocolate Tony had left in the car , washed down by a can of beer in the freeze compartment . |
| 29 | The first thing I had to learn was that my parents ' use of guilt was not for my benefit but for theirs . |
| 30 | The hardest and most necessary lesson I had to learn was how to say goodbye . |