Example sentences of "[vb past] do [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main thing he got done was to defeat the General Strike . |
| 2 | The only thing she 'd done is make a small scratch with a rose thorn and was unfortunate enough to get a piece of contaminated soil |
| 3 | All it seemed to do was circulate the warm turgid air . |
| 4 | But what we decided to do was to replace the entire water main erm with erm a double , a double capacity pipeline . |
| 5 | All the leaker managed to do was to provoke a bogus political row . |
| 6 | What the MacMahon Act did do was to make the British programme slower and more expensive ; and from the wider standpoint of the Western Alliance , it led to unnecessary duplication of effort . |
| 7 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 8 | What Chaplin the showman had done was to create a great screen clown , a clown whose frame of reference was to be emotion rather than politics . |
| 9 | But how could she , when what she longed to do was feel the timeless beauty of this place ? |
| 10 | We thought all we had to do was bring the right things from the Store , but we brought a lot of wrong things too . |
| 11 | All they had to do was hit a tiny fraction of the total available and they were in business . |
| 12 | , my new work colleague , took us to our new home where he and his wife had organised the house and furniture for us — all we had to do was unpack the 20 crates of personal belongings ! |
| 13 | All she had to do was get a good night 's sleep . |
| 14 | In any case , if Parson Woodforde 's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily ‘ out of pocket ’ , all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday . |
| 15 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had ordered most of the stuff from a local catering firm and all we had to do was add the finishing touches to make it look Roman . |
| 16 | Now all he had to do was to convince the mysterious eight twelves to negotiate a settlement . |
| 17 | That suited Comfort , because she was sick to death of war stories and all she wanted to do was forget the whole horrible business and somehow get her life back on to its prewar footing . |
| 18 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 19 | Right okay what he is saying is erm that first of all the peasants hit the landlords politically erm and the first thing they wanted to do was smash the political prestige and power of the landlord class erm without victory in this struggle no victory is possible in the economic struggle to reduce rent and interest er to secure land and other factors of production . |