Example sentences of "on [noun sg] do a " in BNC.
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| 1 | about , no , no it 's only about a fortnight ago , I was on site doing a job and I come out and as far as you know what you call courtesy dial in a card , so that you do n't cut anybody off , you can dial it and everybody says oh what 's going off , you know , you can courtesy dial it , when we 've finished it shuts that channel down |
| 2 | If I were to approach my sixth criterion I needed to find someone who knew their way round an oscilloscope , and it was n't until the mid-1980s that a bright , if somewhat cranky , scuba-diving enthusiast arrived on campus to do a PhD . |
| 3 | How on earth does a satellite stay in orbit ? |
| 4 | What on earth did a man on the wrong side of forty have to say to an eighteen year old ? |
| 5 | How on earth did a man the size of Nathan Bryce manage in here ? |