Example sentences of "[verb] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no sense in expecting any help from the boy , the only thing to be done was to exclude him as an irresponsible minor from the consideration of his own fate . |
| 2 | On the one hand what the gay movement had done was to involve me in a very intense one-to-one relationship , a couple relationship , and at the same time the ideology that the movement was instilling in me was away from the idea of couple relationships and away from the idea that sex should be conventionally tied to relationships or a single relationship . |
| 3 | What hostility did not do was deflect him from his purpose , so that by the time the regime fell in 1870 Paris had been altered for ever and bore the mark of Napoleon III . |
| 4 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 5 | All she could do was keep him at arm 's length — and pray for the strength to keep on doing it till they were released from their snowy prison . |
| 6 | She had been right about Short ; the way to get him to listen was to treat him as if he were a human being , which he clearly was n't . |
| 7 | On April 15 a group of doctors threatened to strike against the curfew , which they alleged was preventing them from attending patients . |
| 8 | All she had to do was hold them at bay for a few weeks . |
| 9 | Leaving Alexandra at her door , unkissed , untouched , was one of the hardest things he had ever done , especially when what he had really wanted to do was to carry her into her bedroom — or his — and make love to her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Waste from animals was a valuable fertiliser — all you had to do was to plough it into the land . |
| 12 | The way to Lavondyss was a short climb away , and all she needed was to resign herself to the journey , to abandon Scathach . |
| 13 | The best she could manage was to imagine him to be a person who had known Ewan well . |
| 14 | So one could n't justify having two people on board doing the job when in fact what was involved was bringing you in signing you in and then serving you . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 17 | That is to say you bought a word processor , and all it did was allow you to type words onto the screen — that and some formatting . |
| 18 | Siberia for me , but all they did was put me on a plane heading for Berlin . |
| 19 | But the mistake that Holberg made was to allow himself to be held in thrall by the world of appearances . |
| 20 | I tell you one thing I used to enjoy , on this particular belt there were so many girls , what I used to enjoy was sending plenty of work down to them — I was responsible for how much work they got out … |
| 21 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 22 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 23 | I realized that all I wanted was to stop him from writing on his own , and that this was possibly his own motive for working with me in Salamanca - to keep my true poetic self silent , subservient to his . |
| 24 | The last thing he wanted was to turn himself into a do-gooder , but he realized very quickly that most of the volunteers were genuinely and sincerely opening their hearts and homes . |
| 25 | The whisky in him fought with any consideration he might have had for her ; all he wanted was to get her into bed . |
| 26 | What I really wanted was to bash him to smithereens . |