Example sentences of "[vb past] to do [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | All it seemed to do was circulate the warm turgid air . |
2 | But what we decided to do was to replace the entire water main erm with erm a double , a double capacity pipeline . |
3 | But how could she , when what she longed to do was feel the timeless beauty of this place ? |
4 | We thought all we had to do was bring the right things from the Store , but we brought a lot of wrong things too . |
5 | , 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 ! |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Now all he had to do was to convince the mysterious eight twelves to negotiate a settlement . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |