Example sentences of "do [was/were] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods . |
| 2 | The only thing to do was to go for a walk . |
| 3 | The work , work something something scheme and and they , they 'd refurbish it , all th th that we had to do was to pay for the materials , they provided the labour . |
| 4 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 5 | What I did was to wait for him to unbolt the door , which opens outwards . |