Example sentences of "do a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Act returned , having done a good time , but not quite good enough , and he knew it . |
| 2 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 4 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 5 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 6 | Joking apart , after nine years as a security operator I found it hard to readjust my life but , now I do not know how I found the time to do a full time job . |
| 7 | I mean I use to do a full time job outside the home , then come back and do all the housework and the washing and the children . |
| 8 | They say it 's time they were paid for doing a full time job , which dominates their lives and saves the state thirty billion pounds each year … |
| 9 | It says , for instance , that it ‘ should have done what COSE did a long time ago . ’ |
| 10 | It is a drawing of a girl ( young woman ) , a nude , not like anything else of his I have seen , and I think it must be something he did a long time ago . |
| 11 | Yes er he eventually er I in fact spoke to a Detective Inspector er at the police station er he informed me that er Detective Constable had a good knowledge of these persons and I therefore instructed that er D C make contact with me which he did a short time later that evening . |