Example sentences of "[verb] do [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first has to do with one of the central themes of this chapter , namely the professional nature of most undergraduate education . |
| 2 | Spoke to class teacher in corridor about work I proposed to do with one of his children . |
| 3 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 4 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 5 | I was originally going to do between one and 12 weeks on it , but now I 've been there two and half years , ’ she said . |
| 6 | He says it was very exciting to work with her because he never knew what she was going to do from one take to another . |
| 7 | If you 've actually be wangling system on your way up , which is what most of us seem to do at one time or another . |
| 8 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |
| 9 | Her home was on the other side of Belsize Square , and he would often drop in at night to tell her about his latest ideas , just as he had done earlier with Dulcie Howes and was to continue doing with one friend or another all his life . |
| 10 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 11 | Ronnie could have done with one himself but he would have got arrested . ’ |
| 12 | we done all that erm Wa , Walkman all that sort of thing we 've done at one time or other . |
| 13 | He did n't come quite under the heading of despised male sex but she was sure he had done at one time . |
| 14 | Accepting that eventually two professors would be necessary , the meeting felt that in its then poor financial state the College might have to make do with one professor plus one subordinate teacher . |
| 15 | Year in , year out , Bob and I have had to make do with one rotten reconditioned typewriter between us . |