Example sentences of "did [vb infin] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw less and less of each other and fought like tigers when we did spend time together . |
| 2 | my holiday was later as usual and longer so , you know and there was a couple of other things not related to this which I 'd thought of doing and it 's sort of they evaporated , but erm , we did spend time talking to Ingy earlier in the year , you know , about publicity and I gave her lists of well such as things obvious things like Playback and Newsbeat |
| 3 | Judging by the amount of political column inches devoted to stating the ‘ obvious ’ irrationality of the programme 's political contentions , it would appear that one or two ‘ sensible ’ capitalist newspaper owners and editors did take time off from lunch to ensure the sensible British public did not get the wrong idea about A Very British Coup . |
| 4 | If you will need to relate what someone said or did take time beforehand to remember it clearly and note it down . |
| 5 | But they , they did come up with the work on the results , and then they , they did get time to plan it . |
| 6 | ‘ Make sure they 've not left the oven on and the back door unlocked like they did last time . ’ |
| 7 | Consider two strategies , Defect and Tit-for-Tat ( TFT ) — i.e. cooperate in the first game , and subsequently do as your opponent did last time . |
| 8 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 9 | ‘ You know , I wanted to take you to lunch at the Ritz , like we did last time , but it would have made us so late in Calking . |
| 10 | Do n't worry and always ask me if there 's something that we did last time and I start ta |
| 11 | So we could maybe do what we did last time . |
| 12 | ‘ After all , that is what you did last time . ’ |
| 13 | The hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) recently said to the House , rather chillingly , that if Labour were re-elected it would treat the national health service as it did last time . |
| 14 | I begin , as I did last time , with brief but important references to one of the matters that comes within my sphere of responsibility — parliamentary reform . |
| 15 | ‘ He thinks I wo n't remember my lines , ’ thought Gabriel , ‘ or that I 'll rush them like I did last time . |
| 16 | Erm if they have n't then you just get a few ideas , got a graphics pack and you say well is this the sort of thing you want , well this is what the er the builder did last time . |
| 17 | But I do n't want to go around looking for candidates like we did last time . |
| 18 | I took Tim to the match one Easter Monday they played Luton in league match , and Ted played , the old Ipswich player , and we go absolutely , it rained , hailed , blew , and we got home soaked to the skin you know , and er it seems to make you feel better if they win you know , but if you sort of put up with those sort of things and they , they lose it 's makes you feel right down in the dumps , but when they get promoted like they did last time it 's remarkable , it 's been remarked about this aspect , that people in local industry seem to work harder , and it seems to be a boost in general local traders make shop window displays and it seems to be a boost to the town in general and give a lift to the town if you like |
| 19 | I 'll do what I did last time . |
| 20 | Like you did last time , remember ? |
| 21 | We did last time , we were in bed by half ten , no eleven . |
| 22 | er , and if you , not quite as short as you did last time , you see when you combed it up last time it was right up to the top just a little bit |
| 23 | we 're not eating in the back room , he can get stuffed , we 'll eat in the posh end for a change Jul , like we did last time |
| 24 | Well we 'll have a look back in , I 'll have a look back in the file and see what we did last time . |
| 25 | But erm they 're bloody daft if they did what they did last time anyway ! |
| 26 | Kate did last time when they got it |
| 27 | if I do well in the exam as I did last time round , yeah |
| 28 | Get out of my filofax , I put you did last time |
| 29 | We did find time for some work at Orkney which even produced a few seizures , but we were a little early for the oil traffic which was only just beginning to affect the island . |