Example sentences of "he did be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he lifted his hand she shrank back , terrified that he would touch her again , but all he did was push the heavy dark hair back from his forehead , his voice coolly impersonal when he answered , ‘ I always find it useful to make plans . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All he did was yell at me to get out of his trailer . ’ |
| 4 | All he did was shoot his mouth off a little . |
| 5 | What he did was wait … and then say , ‘ Was that it ? ’ |
| 6 | Pascoe said it again , but all he did was point the gun . |
| 7 | After all , all he did was string together a lot of old , well-known quotations . |
| 8 | All he did was throw up a question mark — was Britain doing the right thing ? — but to us it was the first sign that someone out there thought that government strategy might be wrong . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Another thing he did was picture himself and his wife in the drawing room receiving dinner guests . |