Sentence examples for does time for from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Do time.

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

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Loving Fred becomes the only thing Pam has to hold on to, even while he does time for stoning to death the baby that may or may not be his.

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Another has done time for assault.

He'd done time for burglary.

Dan White is doing time for tax evasion.

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

Two of them did time for breaking locks.

He did time for robbing a Best Buy in 2001.

Except the part about doing time for embezzlement.

Former Assemblywoman Gloria Davis of the Bronx did time for bribery.

Prophet and profit can blur: both men did time for fraud.

The client, known as Junior, did time for holding up a bank truck.

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