Example sentences of "do was " in BNC.
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| 1 | She do n't want to be on her own , even at night , so what I done was drag my mattress and sleeping bag into her room , and that 's where I 'm sleeping now — on her floor . |
| 2 | All they had done was to try to live an ordinary private life in South Africa with the dignity that we all take for granted , ’ says Gerrard . |
| 3 | The MPs said the only firing they had done was on two US teenagers — children of Panama Canal Commission employees . |
| 4 | He had to thresh with his arms to get himself upright again and , it seemed to Marie , all he had done was drive himself even further down into the mud . |
| 5 | For many of his supporters he could do no wrong and any semblance of wrong having been done was explained as part of the ecumenical conspiracy to defeat true Protestantism . |
| 6 | All the master puppeteers of pop had done was speed up the sophisticated , satin-smooth voice of the boy from Newton-le-Willows in Lancashire to end up with the higher-pitched , female version — Kylie . |
| 7 | And what she seems to have done was to listen too attentively and unquestioningly to ideas about Scottish barbarity and backwardness , and , crucially , Scottish lack of respect for their kings . |
| 8 | Norris 's reputation as a man who got things done was dented when the Tories lost a vote on extra primary school places because Norris was away from his seat ( leading to the crack that he ‘ spent a penny and cost the ratepayers £250,000 ’ ) , but he left his mark on the place . |
| 9 | Norris 's reputation as a man who got things done was dented when the Tories lost a vote on extra primary school places because Norris was away from his seat ( leading to the crack that he ‘ spent a penny and cost the ratepayers £250,000 ’ ) , but he left his mark on the place . |
| 10 | Mr Crangle had tried to persuade him all night not to take the Bookman away but all Mr Slipper had done was smile and ask him not to be so unfriendly . |
| 11 | All that could be done was to work by analogy . |
| 12 | The only job I 've ever done was selling trendy clothes so I 've got wardrobes full of them . |
| 13 | All he thought he had done was to assemble a collection of his favourite songs . |
| 14 | Stephen refers to a crime being excusable if the defendant can show as one of the requisites that what was done was done to avoid a consequence which could not otherwise have been avoided , and which , if not done , would have inflicted harm on him or on others he was bound to protect . |
| 15 | Brewing up was easy — all that had to be done was to shift a few boulders to reach a hot spot lower down , and pop a billy-can of snow into the hole . |
| 16 | All Henry had done was poison a chicken which the berk had then insisted on eating . |
| 17 | In the old days before the distracting influences of radio and television , the fixed routine of the adult inhabitants after the day 's work was done was to settle down for an evening 's knitting , a craft both men and women practised assiduously , on the outside galleries in summer and by candlelight in front of a peat fire in winter . |
| 18 | He said that all he had done was run how he knew best and that he had kept totally relaxed by not bothering about anybody else . |
| 19 | And he did n't tease her , or court her , or divert her , because what she had done was risk death , which was a thing better honoured by abstinence . |
| 20 | All he 'd done was to make a picture of someone in his head and worm his way inside it . |
| 21 | How could they say , as they all did , frequently and sanctimoniously , that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children ? |
| 22 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 23 | Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett continued to insist that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 24 | He stuck rigidly to his statement that what had been done was absolutely essential in the best interests of the children . |
| 25 | What he 'd done was switch off his terminal 's power by mistake . |
| 26 | The Blue Arrow prosecution was later to accuse the defendants of conspiring to rig the market — not alleging that the late take up was illegal , but that the purpose for which it was done was unlawful . |
| 27 | All it had done was grant her professional membership ‘ on the same basis as everybody else — i.e. , specifically on her qualifications and experience as a chemist ’ ! |
| 28 | Everything he had done was just window-dressing , unimportant in itself . |
| 29 | One of the first things that needed to be done was to get a short survey of existing conditions , and with the help of all departments the following summary was made : Burma Today |
| 30 | This , according to the Nationalist , was nonsense : all the paper had done was to ‘ extol Kambona 's ego ’ ; the article ‘ excelled in lies and innuendo ’ . |