Example sentences of "[vb past] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing I did was to refurbish my 1973 vehicle , of course I have kept it in good order . |
| 2 | And all you did was bleed him dry . ’ |
| 3 | Mind , it took about eight weeks to achieve that desirable state , and all they did was to give me some tablets , good food , rest and lots of kindness . |
| 4 | One thing he did was to reassure them that planning was not as far advanced as they had feared . |
| 5 | What these scholars did was to place their own ( negative ) evaluations of [ h ] -loss on to the speech communities of earlier centuries in which evaluations of this phenomenon were not necessarily the same . |
| 6 | The lust he had was to slake her own unmistakable lust . |
| 7 | All she wanted was to maintain their companionable , platonic and mutually beneficial business affiliation . |
| 8 | ‘ I said I was n't here to make moral judgments , that all we wanted was to understand what this project was all about and where it is leading . |