Sentence examples for do time for from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Do time.

(UK) When someone is doing time, they are in prison.

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Little kids didn't do time for possession; parolees did.

If this ends in a rain-affected draw I'll do time for GBH of the weather gods.

And, on reflection, Tucker or either of the McDougals might decide that they don't really like the Clintons well enough to do time for them.

Not that he'll actually do time for his crime, not in the slammer at any rate.

They took off for the California sun in 2008, and lasted here for more than two years — until they were picked up by police and sent home to do time for stealing a relative's car to make their getaway.

As for the president, if his (or any other office holder's) actions don't match up to being a protector of the Constitution, he can be impeached and do time for it.

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Another has done time for assault.

He'd done time for burglary.

Dan White is doing time for tax evasion.

Two of them did time for breaking locks.

He did time for robbing a Best Buy in 2001.

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