Example sentences of "do [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | though this must do for the time being . |
| 2 | You just tip it carefully that will do for the time being and eat those first |
| 3 | The question was and always will be , what shall we do with the time we have saved ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One — that ‘ pennant has told us more than perhaps one in ten thousand could have done in the time that he took . ’ |
| 6 | How we get all work done in the time ? … |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | You watch the bronze figure of the man working the shadoof , which he has done since the time of the Pharaohs . |
| 9 | ‘ Tomorrow we will face the Orcish scum and will triumph , as men have done since the time of Sigmar ! ’ |
| 10 | It must be done at the time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ There was n't a thing he could do at the time , but he 's got his eye on them . ’ |
| 18 | That was the best , at least I understand that was the best the Secretary of State could do at the time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | In many respects you are only being asked to do what ought to have been done around the time of your last birthday . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And that is what we have to do within the time and organization constraints which Norman er correctly mentioned earlier . |
| 24 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 25 | ‘ There was n't anything to do at the time . |
| 26 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 27 | It was a reasonable thing to do at the time as the fund was in surplus . |
| 28 | Robert still felt some confusion about what Aziz and his friends might be expected to do around the time of the little boy 's Occultation . |
| 29 | ‘ The main damage was at the back , to dressing rooms , for example , and there will still be a lot of work to do by the time December arrives . ’ |
| 30 | two copies so it 'll be something to do by the time we get back . |