Example sentences of "do [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the artistes were in England , but the staff were in New York , and to get money and to get certain things that we needed to do took a long time . |
| 2 | But those old ideas do take a long time to die . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My brother tt he er had a bicycle and then he joined up , er we did have a hectic time , he could make anything go . |
| 5 | Ferngrove Park , with its woods and meadows and deep thickets full of secret nooks and crannies , was a place where the Brownies really did have a grand time . |
| 6 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 7 | In the end , I really did have a good time at College . |
| 8 | We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire . |
| 9 | It did take a long time for anything to happen . |
| 10 | However , independently of machines , we do have a natural time sense . |
| 11 | During an , a very intensive training and organization period in the United States during the first half of nineteen forty three , and that does sound a long time ago , er we er the Three-Ninetieth Bomb Group , under the able direction of Colonel , er arrived at Parham , right here , in July nineteen forty three . |
| 12 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |