Example sentences of "do [vb infin] a [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But those old ideas do take a long time to die . |
| 2 | You do take a long time to come out has not reached the non strikers and er , some said he had a little reading from who . |
| 3 | We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire . |
| 4 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |