Example sentences of "had do [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We thought all we had to do was bring the right things from the Store , but we brought a lot of wrong things too . |
| 3 | All they had to do was hit a tiny fraction of the total available and they were in business . |
| 4 | , 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 ! |
| 5 | All she had to do was get a good night 's sleep . |
| 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 . |