Example sentences of "[verb] was [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best that could be done was to influence its shape in a way that gave the greatest help to the home market . |
| 2 | No one could go into his yard without a cane — which he appeared to be terrified of — and the viciousness he displayed when anyone was near his food was so extreme that the only way he could be fed was to throw his food over the fence ! |
| 3 | I should have kept my silence , for the only purpose my words served was to demonstrate my disbelief in Billingsley 's outrageous explanation . |
| 4 | All we had to do was sign our name to it . |
| 5 | Yet whatever they did with their talents , the one thing , notoriously , which wealthy men in the Middle Ages were not permitted to do was to lend their money at interest . |
| 6 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 7 | And now what she had to do was maintain her temper at white heat until he had pumped his pleasure into her so that she would not lose her nerve — and possibly her satin — by cringing away from him at that vital last moment — vital for him , fatal perhaps for her — and pleading with him not to make her pregnant . |
| 8 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 9 | What he did was send his drive over both familiar fairway bunkers 313 yards — all uphill . |
| 10 | According to Celentano , the first thing Sinatra did was to throw his chair across the room , yelling , ‘ Get rid of this . |
| 11 | She could n't think why — the last thing she wanted was to prolong her time in his company . |
| 12 | At the same time I felt so inordinately tired that all I wanted was to lean my face against that corduroy and shut out the world . |
| 13 | . I was ill as well as desolate , and all I wanted was to hide my wretchedness from everyone . ’ |