Example sentences of "do [pron] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
2 | I mean if he was going to attack me , he 'd surely do it at some time when he had a reason to be angry . |
3 | I did that when I was seven and different people can do it at any time . |
4 | So changing into the future , you can do it at any time , what it actually means , it 'll affects the next month 's premiums , and switching , er , it 's on a bid to bid basis , from one fund to the other , and we charge them eighteen pounds per occasion . |
5 | If they can not do it in that time they never will . |
6 | Yeah but they 're , but they 're not they 're gon na do it in some time in June I think that 's the target . |
7 | And he could do it in less time . |
8 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
9 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
10 | And it 's not everybody 's job to do that , so ordinary people took the jobs as shunters and could be taught how to do it in short time , if they were average and er in good health . |
11 | manual worker — prepared to do anything at any time at very short notice regardless of what is in the oven ; |
12 | It was even more important to know when evil gods would be in charge so as to avoid trouble as far as possible by doing nothing at such times . |
13 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
14 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
15 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
16 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
17 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
18 | oh yeah the people , matey 's walking along and he 's going like this and he 's pulling it as he 's doing it , he says and he 's doing it in proper time like that , but with one arm going he 's twiddling it , he 's doing it , he says no my feet are exactly like that , very effective but you can actually get fined for loosing them , you have to pay for them and its like a real , shooting sticks as well , you do n't tend to carry erm , these pay sticks you carry them like the old shooting sticks , the old you know ? |
19 | Charlotte was counting the seconds until he should extricate himself , and he did it in less time than she had expected , and without even the pretence of sitting down with her . |
20 | ‘ Did he at any time make advances to you ? ’ |
21 | It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature . |