Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was doing time for several rather serious drug-related offences . |
| 2 | It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War . |
| 3 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |
| 4 | But on his last full campaigning day in Monklands East , a depressed part of west central Scotland badly hit by the collapse of traditional industries , he was making time for the locals he has represented — with a boundary change — since 1970 . |
| 5 | He abused his inheritance , behaved extravagantly , and nearly got his comeuppance from the weasels — a violent proletariat who squatted in his house while he was doing time for car theft . |
| 6 | He was doing time for debt , as I recall . |
| 7 | The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it . |