Example sentences of "one [noun sg] do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | one blacksmith does that yard , they l or two , two do the yards now , cos there 's a lot of . |
| 2 | Instead of one side doing all their batting in one go and setting a target for the other side to beat , baseball 's innings are broken up into bits , with each side batting in turn until nine innings have been completed . |
| 3 | In late August , after the terns had fledged , he went over one evening to do some work on the island , and on the way back in the dusk he disturbed a party of terns which were roosting on the beach , one of which flew into the tractor and was killed . |
| 4 | And if er , I mean one of these girls is worth maybe three others , you know , they 're all erm , they 'll , and still clear the shopfloor , get them downstairs , and sweep up for you in say , four hours , and one person does that while the rest . |
| 5 | It would not now be possible in one volume to do any kind of justice to so many . |
| 6 | In a monogamous marriage there are many more claims on time and labour because there is only one woman to do all the work ; looking after a husband and children , tending crops , collecting water , firewood and preparing food . |
| 7 | Do I really need two airpumps , for the skimmer and the trickle filter , or will one pump do both ? |
| 8 | ‘ We have to keep costs to a minimum and one way to do that is to have driver-operated buses on some routes , ’ says Morag Petrie , press officer for London buses . |
| 9 | We are all in the business of making people laugh — and in Carry On films there is only one way to do that — good old slapstick humour . ’ |
| 10 | So , British Gas , the commercial , have worked out that there 's only one way to do that , you do the job properly to start with . |
| 11 | One way to do this is for each group to aim to divide into two groups and eventually to form a new church in the area where they meet . |
| 12 | One way to do this is to give them a hefty shove and hurl them together so fast that their mutual electrical repulsion can not resist , as in the Sun where the temperature at the centre is so great that the protons are highly agitated and occasionally collide at which point the energy-liberating fusion mechanisms take over . |
| 13 | There 's only one way to do this , Sophie thought . |
| 14 | One way to do this would be to treat a space as a legal character and build the whole of the set of compounds into the word recognition tree with an index at the end . |
| 15 | One way to do this is to make the separator an unusual character , say CHR$ ( 127 ) . |
| 16 | What one earth does this mean ? |
| 17 | Only one class did that . |
| 18 | A manager at one dealer did this regularly . |