Example sentences of "do be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she would do was exit with as much style as possible , given the situation . |
| 2 | I kept on popping questions , he would n't answer , all he could do was look as if I had no right to ask . |
| 3 | ‘ All I could do was scream down the phone — God knows what the listeners made of it . ’ |
| 4 | All I could do was pile up small bits of information hoping it would make an understandable structure one day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All she could do was crouch in a corner and sob . |
| 7 | All she could do was stumble from the room and get out of their sight as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | What she must do was concentrate on getting her memory back so that she could get home to them as soon as humanly possible . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Horror-struck , all he could do was slam on the brakes and pray . |
| 12 | All she could do was sit on the side of the pool with one leg in the water . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The only thing I could do was sit outside his house on the doorstep . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | All he could do was sit in the corner of his cage , hoping it would all end . |
| 17 | After that all anyone could do was sit by the bed holding her hand . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | All they could do was talk about their next movie , and I 'm thinking , ‘ Have we finished this one ? ’ ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All I could do was shout at Gabrielle and frighten her . |
| 22 | All the Board of Education could do was aim for a minimum of half-time school provision by Easter . |
| 23 | 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 . |