Example sentences of "[verb] was [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All she had to do was hold them at bay for a few weeks . |
| 4 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 5 | 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 . |