Example sentences of "do [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , whatever your age , circumstances and financial resources , taking stock is something which must be done from time to time — it is the first step in making decisions . |
| 2 | The three departments , however , do use official statistics in the detailed studies which are done from time to time on a one-off basis . |
| 3 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
| 4 | There is nothing to stop the parties agreeing , after a dispute has arisen , to refer their dispute to an expert for his determination , and this is done from time to time , in the same way as arbitration agreements . |
| 5 | That necessary ditching , in all likelihood , will now be done in time for the next election . |
| 6 | And are you sure that you can get your bit done in time for him to continue ? |
| 7 | Any spontaneous pull to which he yields ( for example , a proneness due to laziness to exaggerate the difficulty of getting things done in time for the earlier flight ) will merely bias his judgement ; in the pure choice of means you either choose rationally or surrender to the spontaneous . |
| 8 | She sighed with satisfaction , the job was going to get done on time after all and that , she promised herself , was only the beginning . |
| 9 | However , my brief was to make a virtue of necessity , as we all have to do from time to time , and concentrate on the planting . |
| 10 | The words of the Spell picked just that moment to surface from the depths of his mind , as they always did in time of crisis . |
| 11 | He sat on a chair facing the desk and did not look at Mr Rose , though he did from time to time tilt his head to measure the angled slices of building and reflected light arranged by the blind . |
| 12 | If they did look out the sentries had orders to fire on them , which they did from time to time although no one was ever injured . |
| 13 | But doctors and nurses do from time to time brush aside the protests of aged , dying or mentally affected patients . |
| 14 | ‘ It was just one of those quirky , naughty , wild sort of drunken things that people do from time to time , ’ said Lowe . |
| 15 | We certainly have not ceased erm to undertake educational work and erm I do from time to time er do a number of reports on that work for er our funding bodies and er recently I 've done a report requested by Northern Arts , for the Arts Council I believe . |
| 16 | Although we do not everywhere have the precision of Mesozoic chronology , we do from time to time find evidence , in all parts of the stratigraphical column , of very rapid and very spasmodic deposition in the most harmless of sediments . |
| 17 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 18 | And now , if you will have me , we will hasten from this place , before the magician returns , as he does from time to time , to see if I have relented . ’ |
| 19 | The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) is entitled to change his view , as he does from time to time . |