Example sentences of "was all you [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you were unemployed in Mississippi and you were black , you had trouble getting the fifty dollars to start with but that was all you 'd get , but if you went to New York you get five hundred dollars , so what would you do ? |
| 2 | But the three-minute song is just a left-over from when that was all you could fit on to one side of a 78 record . |
| 3 | It was all you could do . |
| 4 | These contained a substance called Spread , and , indeed , that was all you could do with it . |
| 5 | Well okay bu but in that sense are you saying that the learning experience was such that the peasant was so conservative and reactionary and so was all you could do ? |
| 6 | That was all you could hear . |
| 7 | ‘ Two rashers of bacon a week was all you could have and a small amount of sugar , ’ said Mr King , who with his wife , Agnes , ran the shop for the next 35 years . |
| 8 | ‘ That was all you could establish ? ’ |
| 9 | It was all you could get , at Conservative Research Department . |