Example sentences of "do [prep] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this could be done for one product , it could be done for others with their own market strategies and situations . |
| 2 | ‘ Not very imaginative , and I do n't expect the accommodation will be marvellous , but it will do for one night . ’ |
| 3 | But I mean Kathy 's only done like one side apparently |
| 4 | We would really like to see this thing over and done with one way or another , and to be able to put our case . |
| 5 | The wash down would be done with one leg up at a time and an impatient queue waiting behind . |
| 6 | This can be done with one frame or strip of film , or the stages can involve successive strips and rephotographing , although with some possible loss of quality each time . |
| 7 | ‘ What can you do with one half of a gherkin ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In medieval times the acre or strip , which was the average day 's ploughing for an ox-team , was sometimes called a jurnalis ( or diurnalis ) in monks ' Latin and journel in French — that is , the amount of ploughing that could be done in one day . |
| 10 | Going with a combine it 's all done in one operation you see . |
| 11 | This should never be done in one go , especially with a new aquarium , but in four or five stages allowing at least half an hour settling time after each stage . |
| 12 | The lady was so impressed , she called her assistant to look at this miracle ‘ All done in one week ! ’ |
| 13 | This could be done in one area . |
| 14 | Starting from the stretcher box beneath the buttress is Thanatos ( HVS 5b ) , best done in one pitch to the heather terrace . |
| 15 | ‘ The holiday we were featuring was a Sovereign Cities ‘ Away-Day ’ to Amsterdam and , as we had a lot to see and do in one day , we had to set out early . |
| 16 | Such an assumption requires the invocation of additional processes to explain precisely how what a child does or does not do in one setting might be related to the child 's performance in a different setting . |
| 17 | ‘ Those were all done on one roll of film ’ he explained , ‘ Because they had to be instantaneous and I knew if I went back again , it would not be the same . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | It is very complex , very grammatical , and the finger spelling is done on one hand . |
| 20 | It is not possible for all the functions of the two desks to be done at one desk in reception . |
| 21 | He did n't come quite under the heading of despised male sex but she was sure he had done at one time . |
| 22 | we done all that erm Wa , Walkman all that sort of thing we 've done at one time or other . |
| 23 | Not only in law , but in ordinary life , we look upon an act done by one man in pursuance of another 's orders as done by the person who gives the order . |
| 24 | Discussion between the team leader and his surveyor must take place as the monitoring process should not be done by one person in isolation . |
| 25 | The central issue has been why the ‘ magic of plurality ’ should make something unlawful if it is not unlawful when done by one person alone . |
| 26 | The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person . |
| 27 | The scope of ‘ unlawful means ’ conspiracy is also restricted by the requirement that the act should be one which would be actionable in tort if done by one person . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And what , too , of the work done by one half of the human race ever since the species emerged : the work of the housewife ? |
| 30 | It argued that government control should be ‘ strategic guidance ’ and should be exercised as far as possible in the same way for all the industries by the use of economic and financial criteria , and that this should be done by one minister and one department . |