Example sentences of "i did [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the first thing I did was to spend ten years with the Royal Shakespeare Company ! |
| 2 | With this in mind , the first thing I did was to join the Oxford Exploration Club . |
| 3 | The first thing I did was to refurbish my 1973 vehicle , of course I have kept it in good order . |
| 4 | The other thing is my contribution to the new album is limited , Jake had most of the songs finished before I arrived and all I did was go in and lay down the bass tracks . |
| 5 | I mean , I do n't know I , you see I left I had to come here so I left before Bob Monkhouse and everything , I just , I , all I did was go for couple of free drinks and plate of free food , which , I do n't think I got . |
| 6 | I do have needs — and last night what I did was satisfy them . ’ |
| 7 | The first thing I did was tell Harvey that the eggs and all my baggage had been stolen at the airport , but Harvey Newbegin was in one of his rich-busy-man moods and went bustling around making tutting noises for a couple of days . |
| 8 | ‘ All I did was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 9 | What I did was to wait for him to unbolt the door , which opens outwards . |
| 10 | All I did was arrive more quickly than going round to your door . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ When we arrived , the first thing I did was arrange a flight to somewhere else . |
| 12 | All I did was to use a term to convey a meaning . |
| 13 | What I did was prepare a supplementary form to the one that we had at the management team meeting |
| 14 | What I did was to teeter from side to side like a tall mast on a small ship in a heavy sea . |
| 15 | As I said , what I did was dictated by necessity . |
| 16 | ‘ Your father was the one who struck the deals ; all I did was choose the animals . ’ |
| 17 | All I did was looking in the windows . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The first major thing I did was to have a road laid from the top , rather a long way . |
| 20 | All I did was spend my time tell telling them how they could do their job better . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , all I did was have an idea , ’ he said . |
| 22 | The first thing I did was to get used to it . |
| 23 | All I did was brush my hair ! |
| 24 | Erm and that would alter the book but nevertheless we would want to say , what I did was to alter the book . |
| 25 | They were absolutely horrid and if I went on the beach , the first thing I did was to dig a hole in the sand to put the feet in and then just stay there all day … . |
| 26 | All I did was turn me back for a minute and it was . |
| 27 | Perhaps all I did was to elevate trivia into a principle . |
| 28 | What I did was to make a virtue of my misery . |
| 29 | The first thing I did was get on the phone to her . |
| 30 | All I did was get things started . |