Example sentences of "it [was/were] the [adj] [noun] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few obvious English tourists , but even more elderly Italians , and even a few young couples , as if it were the fashionable thing to do . |
| 2 | It was fairly erm revolutionary at the time in in the fact it was really adopting a client server approach in network computing , and it was the first way to do that . |
| 3 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 4 | Thérèse respectfully sent the nuns a faire-part , edged in black ; she knew it was the correct thing to do . |
| 5 | So here was a company run by designers , as people might like to criticise us , putting in the most forward-thinking advanced systems for controlling stock , because it was the logical thing to do — the common-sense thing to do . |
| 6 | It was the best thing to do . |
| 7 | ‘ It was the only thing to do , believe me — if you had seen him — ’ |
| 8 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 9 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 10 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 11 | I explained that I had felt that it was the right thing to do ; it expressed what I felt . |
| 12 | It was as if he 'd made up his mind about something yet was not sure if it was the right thing to do . |
| 13 | He was certainly enjoying life more than ever before , and when Eva finally announced that we were moving to London he admitted that it was the right thing to do . |
| 14 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 15 | She signed because she was persuaded that it was the right thing to do , not because her husband 's pressure deprived her consent of reality . |
| 16 | I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 17 | The young houseman appeared to be consulting a list , and Richard , anxious to help a beginner , tried to indicate that he would bleed from the ears if it was the right thing to do . |
| 18 | This snow will have cost you a small fortune in wasted hay by the time it thaws , but it was the right thing to do , it 's saved your stock . ’ |
| 19 | I am proud to confess that , in the 1970s , I campaigned for a national minimum wage because I felt that it was the right thing to do then . |
| 20 | It was the right thing to do because it captured everyone 's imagination . |
| 21 | We are sorry Q.T. day had to be cancelled but because the weather conditions were so bad we felt it was the right thing to do . |
| 22 | It was , it was , it was the right thing to do . |
| 23 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 24 | whereas Caesar did n't take the crown because he was ambitious , he knew it was the right thing to do . |
| 25 | How fond he had been of darling Mou-Mou … it broke Mummy 's heart to have her put down , but it was the kindest thing to do … . |
| 26 | It was the smart thing to do down Hollywood , but it is not difficult to see that the venom and enjoyment that went into those attacks of the 1920s tell us more about the social values of elites and in particular of intellectuals than they do about movies as such . |
| 27 | I am sure that it was the wrong thing to do ; still , he would always have been interfering , I suppose . ’ |