Example sentences of "[modal v] do be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she must do was concentrate on getting her memory back so that she could get home to them as soon as humanly possible . |
| 2 | ‘ All I could do was lie on the bed ’ , she says , ‘ it made me feel very ill and because of that I felt slightly depressed . |
| 3 | All they could do was work from day to day , from performance to performance , and through the second week , Charles started to feel his confidence in the part building up again . |
| 4 | I kept on popping questions , he would n't answer , all he could do was look as if I had no right to ask . |
| 5 | ‘ All I could do was scream down the phone — God knows what the listeners made of it . ’ |
| 6 | All she could do was crouch in a corner and sob . |
| 7 | All I could do was pile up small bits of information hoping it would make an understandable structure one day . |
| 8 | But all I could do was wrestle with the lunging hind foot , dressing the infected cleft with a crude mixture of copper sulphate and Stockholm tar and finishing with a pad of cotton wool held by a tight bandage . |
| 9 | All she could do was stumble from the room and get out of their sight as quickly as possible . |
| 10 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 11 | There was a strange moment then , when he knew the bastard was still in the room , still watching him , and all he could do was wait for him to leave . |
| 12 | All I could do was shout at Gabrielle and frighten her . |
| 13 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 14 | The only thing I could do was sit outside his house on the doorstep . |
| 15 | All she could do was sit on the side of the pool with one leg in the water . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I was so tired by that time that all I could do was sit in a deck-chair on the sea-front and sleep all day , but it was enough . ’ |
| 17 | All he could do was sit in the corner of his cage , hoping it would all end . |
| 18 | After that all anyone could do was sit by the bed holding her hand . |
| 19 | Horror-struck , all he could do was slam on the brakes and pray . |
| 20 | All they could do was talk about their next movie , and I 'm thinking , ‘ Have we finished this one ? ’ ’ |
| 21 | All the Board of Education could do was aim for a minimum of half-time school provision by Easter . |
| 22 | Yeah oh we loved all the gold furniture and , that 's all we used to do was walk round looking at furniture and things |
| 23 | If ever he used to take us for a spare lesson , all he used to do was draw on the blackboard the scrum lineouts and things . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | What she would do was exit with as much style as possible , given the situation . |
| 26 | To Peggy Say , Anderson 's sister , it seemed that some particularly keen sympathy compelled North never to turn down her requests to see him , when all she would do was sit at his desk upbraiding him and complaining and crying ; and when all he could do was repeat , cryptically , infuriatingly , that the government was doing everything it could possibly think of . |
| 27 | The best you can do is silks for a jockey skullcap , but should n't we be able to buy hats covered with light or reflective materials , instead of velvet , for road use ? |