Example sentences of "have done [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty with all this is cost as , despite the Lands Tribunal decision , there is nothing to prevent the Capital Taxes Office from raising a new demand based on fresh grounds , as it has done many times during the past 11 years . |
| 2 | Looping the loop at a Manchester airshow as he 'd done many times before in the vintage Spitfire … pilot David Moore from Horsley near Stroud misjudged the manoeuvere . |
| 3 | As that was a race in which Lotus , knowing that Fittipaldi was planning to leave , had given no team orders to Ronnie Peterson to be obliging to Fittipaldi , Ronnie won — as he could have done several times previously — and with Ronnie 's win , Fittipaldi was eliminated from the title race . |
| 4 | If Lithuania had scored , as they should have done several times in the second half , maybe that would have shaken the Irish from their slumber . |
| 5 | For what would you have done this time last year if a lass had been held back from you like this ? |
| 6 | Do n't think about it , just get up , like Uncle Jamie had done that time out hunting , broken arm and all . |
| 7 | Jonathon knew he had less than two miles to go and that his faithful horse would trudge him home as he had done many times before . |
| 8 | So was the ghostly passenger preparing to embark on another train journey as he had done many times during his life on earth ? |
| 9 | Billy could easily have ferried her across the river in his boat , as he had done many times before . |
| 10 | All three ran back to the trough prepared to swim for it as the boys had done several times before . |
| 11 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
| 12 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |
| 13 | If you have ever stood on a sheep farmer 's hillside , as I have done many times in the Western Highlands of Scotland , and listened to the sheep calling to ( communicating with ) each other , you will immediately notice how their intonations are all different , as indeed are their faces . |