Example sentences of "do [pers pn] [prep] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
| 4 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 8 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |