Example sentences of "do at any [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In your first year , half an hour of concentrated thought on a specific topic may be as much as you can do at any one time . |
| 2 | A person 's actions can be explained in terms of his following of tacit conventions , but our knowledge of the rules will not allow us to predict what he will do at any given time . |
| 3 | The things to avoid are principally a sort of subterranean trembling that begins in the body and communicates itself to your vocal chords and even , on occasion , to the chair in which you are sitting , and those long swallows , which you never seem to do at any other time but now occur unstoppably at the wrong point of emphasis in the sentence . |
| 4 | ‘ I wanted each chapter to be separate , but I did n't want it to be a set of separate short stories ; so I had to keep an enormous notebook of who they all were and what they were doing at any given time . |
| 5 | It is perhaps remarkable how predictable ( though not exactly inflexible ) the operation of a modern airliner is , even to the extent of it being possible to know within small limits what the pilots will be doing at any particular time . |