Example sentences of "do [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors from the hospital told the coroner that although it was ’ highly unusual ’ for such a thing to occur , such complications did arise from time to time . |
| 2 | the , you know to cool off what I do know before time , I woke up er phew the you know |
| 3 | However , most cases of acne do improve with time , so once you 've found a suitable preparation , stay with it until nature finally cures the problem . |
| 4 | Annunziata agreed that Anthony was unlikely to waste time going out to dinner with the others even if he did return in time and promised to cook something quickly for him if he appeared wanting a meal . |
| 5 | If he did apply in time and gave up all to one creditor , he remained a prisoner in the rest of the actions . |
| 6 | I never established anything like a friendship with him , but our paths did cross from time to time . |
| 7 | We would like to guarantee that our flights will never be delayed and in fact the vast majority of flights do depart on time . |
| 8 | Porter points out , nevertheless , that industry structures do change over time , perhaps due to technological or other developments , and that the firm itself may , through its competitive strategy , change the structure either inadvertently or not . |
| 9 | The workers , the direct producers of goods and services , have occupational choices that are generally free within the range offered by national capitalisms , but they do change over time and place . |
| 10 | Of course , the rules of games do change over time . |
| 11 | I always find much of interest in each issue as it reaches me and if I do criticise from time to time , this is meant to be constructive and helpful . |
| 12 | One was the periodic factor that wages did increase from time to time -and the other was what he called the adjustment factor which meant that a time might come in any industry when a distortion or trend had to be recognized as such for correction . |
| 13 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 14 | This colouring does fade in time , if the fish survives the shock of the treatment . |
| 15 | Nonetheless the composition of households does change over time , perhaps rather more than much recent research has acknowledged . |
| 16 | Naturally the judges ' tariff is not writ in stone ; it may and does change over time , so that sentences passed in 1900 are of little or no value in ascertaining the tariff in 1992 . |
| 17 | Deaf children 's reading ability does increase over time , however , although it never reaches the levels of hearing children . |