Example sentences of "[verb] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The room where the four senior and four junior counsel from Edinburgh would work was fitted out with several very basic trestle tables , not perhaps quite what members of the Faculty of Advocates are used to working on , but Alistair Bruce described them as very resilient people . |
2 | All we had to do was get out of that place and our dreams would immediately be attainable . |
3 | All Paul Manville had to do was to get out of this immediate mess . |
4 | The jealousy she felt was escalating out of all control . |
5 | All you did was sit round like some old colonel in an Agatha Christie book , bellowing about the country going to the dogs . |