Example sentences of "had [verb] be [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he thought he had done was to assemble a collection of his favourite songs . |
| 2 | After dropping off my bags , all we had to do was to return the cab . |
| 3 | All they had to do was to take the bung out of the barrel , top off the level until they were ready to move them . |
| 4 | Melanie realised , now , that she had never needed an invitation to listen to his dancing music ; all she had to do was to open the door and walk in . |
| 5 | In James Watson 's account ( 1970 ) of the discovery of the structure of DNA — where the non-scientist expects to find strictly-controlled and logically-sequenced reasoning — there is an element of play : ‘ All we had to do was to construct a set of molecular models and begin to play ’ ( ibid . |
| 6 | All we had to do was to pay the expense of the helicopter that brought him in because at that time he was appearing at the Prince of Wales and it was a matter of him fitting his time in with his performances , you see ? |
| 7 | boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with . |
| 8 | All the pirate had to do was to read the source ( original ) disc into the computer 's memory , replace the source disc with a blank one , and write the program back on it . |