Example sentences of "[pers pn] do was [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I did was think of it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |
| 3 | All I did was fall in the water ! ’ |
| 4 | and he had a crowbar and that well I never did anything all I did was stop in me van |
| 5 | ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke . |
| 6 | ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke . |
| 7 | All I did was walk across the room and pull that curtain off him . ’ |
| 8 | I used to really go down there and all I did was sort of tick off what the lads had already done . |
| 9 | Er the fourth thing you did was introduction to the C C Q. |
| 10 | The sort of things we did was go to private parties , go to gay clubs , troll around pubs in South London where they had drag shows . |
| 11 | All we did was go down the corridor , nothing whatsoever to do . |
| 12 | There again er there was smoke seen coming out of a bedroom , so we first of all informed base again , that there 's a fire , in a flat , secondly we did was break down the door . |
| 13 | Graham Tregidon became WRU president at the annual general meeting in June and one of the first things he did was go into print in the next issue of the union 's newsletter to plead unity . |
| 14 | All he did was yell at me to get out of his trailer . ’ |
| 15 | He remembered taking her to school , it was after their mother died , Georgia would 've been seven , she did n't want to go , there were girls who tied her to trees , it was her accent or her looks , he could n't remember now , but he had to take her because he 'd promised Dad , Dad who did n't know anything , the scratches on her legs were brambles , the bruises on her wrists were something else , he could n't remember now , how could they tell him the truth , how could they tell him anything when all he did was sit in dark rooms with his head in his hands , his head haunted by her ghost , and each dawn broke like the slow blow of a hammer . |