Example sentences of "do [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very small , only just room for the bunk , but it would do for a time . |
| 2 | though this must do for the time being . |
| 3 | You just tip it carefully that will do for the time being and eat those first |
| 4 | The question was and always will be , what shall we do with the time we have saved ? |
| 5 | With the two of us working like blacks we 'll have it done in no time . |
| 6 | Generally , the rate of performance ( that is , sums done in the time allotted or the time taken to complete the task ) is scored rather than its accuracy . |
| 7 | One — that ‘ pennant has told us more than perhaps one in ten thousand could have done in the time that he took . ’ |
| 8 | How we get all work done in the time ? … |
| 9 | was done in the time of which set up the Republic of Ireland , get the I R A to declare a truce and talk to them and I think |
| 10 | What can one do in a time when no one is ashamed of having done something , when people are only guilty , as a weapon ? ’ |
| 11 | You watch the bronze figure of the man working the shadoof , which he has done since the time of the Pharaohs . |
| 12 | ‘ Tomorrow we will face the Orcish scum and will triumph , as men have done since the time of Sigmar ! ’ |
| 13 | There are recognized ways of doing things that ensure that the job gets done at a time when we are probably incapable of thinking things through carefully . |
| 14 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 15 | It must be done at the time . |
| 16 | The British Museum 's engraving of Derwentwater published by him in Manchester might have been done at the time of Yates ' map-making after West 's encouragement , but it is very poor . |
| 17 | ‘ So then I had an idea that if I went to a composer who wrote very tuneful music , but asked him to work electronically rather than with instruments , I might end up with what I wanted , which was music the ear could relate to , rather than musique concrète which was the other sort of electronic music being done at the time . |
| 18 | Mum had been so kind and prepared lots of meals for us all so there was n't much in the kitchen to be done at the time . |
| 19 | There is then a carefully chosen extract from the writer 's work , followed by a bibliography , which not only includes references to critical responses done at the time of publication but modern reassessments as well . |
| 20 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 21 | My sights were wide-ranging " I 'd like to work for the Daily Mirror or the Telegraph , " I informed my friends , as I sank a pint in the way I 'd seen the big-boys do at the time of the by-election . |
| 22 | ‘ There was n't a thing he could do at the time , but he 's got his eye on them . ’ |
| 23 | That was the best , at least I understand that was the best the Secretary of State could do at the time . |
| 24 | Unfortunately the damage was already done by the time Richard was fully recovered , and in spite of his commendable efforts to rescue what was left of the business he had built from his own sweat , it was far too late . |
| 25 | So the whole day is done by the time you get started , so you can close out the foreign and even the U S domestic edition , domestic news , before you |
| 26 | In many respects you are only being asked to do what ought to have been done around the time of your last birthday . |
| 27 | When older people think of the past they are not just taking stock of their lives but trying to decide what to do with the time that they have left , and trying to do so in relation to concluding or making sense of what has gone before . |
| 28 | And that is what we have to do within the time and organization constraints which Norman er correctly mentioned earlier . |
| 29 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 30 | ‘ There was n't anything to do at the time . |