Example sentences of "do the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have done the Financial Times . |
| 2 | Tonight , social services said nothing was done the first time because nobody believed the complaints . |
| 3 | Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up . |
| 4 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 5 | I do all the things I did n't do the first time . |
| 6 | But you 're not gon na do the other times . |
| 7 | A nice enough chap and he was knowledgeable in theory you see , but when it come to the practical experience and the practical doing of the work , he would just say , Well what did you do the last time Jimmy ? |
| 8 | What would Mr Seeders do the next time he came in ? |
| 9 | In February '91 Tony started an essay on Arafat , ‘ I hooked up with him on two different occasions , over the course of a couple months , trying to do a photo-essay on him ; which was probably the most ridiculous thing to do the first time out of the box for a while — talk about a third-rate Keystone kops movie , with me as the star ! ’ |
| 10 | er course work to do the whole time . |
| 11 | 3 If you are coming back from injury or lay-off , go slowly — train progressively and do not expect to be doing the same times as you were before . |
| 12 | Do you know you 're doing the three times table ? |
| 13 | ’ Kilmarnock gave us a doing the last time we played them so we wanted to set the record straight . |
| 14 | It does n't bother me the way it did the first time . |
| 15 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 16 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 17 | " Why did the wonderful times stop ? " asked Sara . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not runnin' away like I did the last time . ’ |
| 19 | I mean which we did the last time we went we went down the , the beach and so on down the |
| 20 | Take a rest and try again — it is amazing how much better you do the second time around . |
| 21 | You could do that much , do the three times three times five and that gives you forty five but we 're looking for ninety . |
| 22 | Well do the next time then eh ? |