Example sentences of "do for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients were still taking omeprazole when they had the tests done for a second time . |
| 2 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 3 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
| 4 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 5 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 6 | Ah , now this is the one I have n't done for a long time , now this is the one |
| 7 | Oh well if you have n't had chi or have n't done for a long time you enjoy them . |
| 8 | Have n't done for a long time . |
| 9 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 10 | As the distinguished chemist , Cornford , said : ‘ The doctrine is based on the theory that nothing should ever be done for the first time . ’ |
| 11 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 12 | Yeah she had it , she was just going into theatre at the end of the programme , she was having it done for the fourth time |
| 13 | I 'll see that bugger tomorrow mornin' if I have to get up at five , an , I 'll tell him what I 've meant to do for a long time ; I 'll take the can along to the authorities . |
| 14 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 15 | And went on , ‘ When my mother died , ten years ago , my father did what he 'd wanted to do for a long time and moved into here , leaving me the palazzo . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
| 17 | If you have a weekend free , you can do what many west Berliners are now able to do for the first time since 1952 — simple drive into the country and enjoy the landscape of Brandenburg . |
| 18 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 19 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 20 | Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " . |