Example sentences of "do [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 2 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 3 | Waste from animals was a valuable fertiliser — all you had to do was to plough it into the land . |
| 4 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |