Sentence examples for may do time from inspiring English sources

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Do time.

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

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One of the crimes for which a man may do time in N.Y.

The New Yorker, June 23 , 1945P. 13 One of the crimes for which a man may do time in N.Y.

By Stanley Edgar Hyman and E. B. White The New Yorker, June 23 , 1945P. 13 One of the crimes for which a man may do time in N.Y.

Now Belfort may do time in jail.

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Morsi has weathered a few storms before and may do this time too.

We may do a time line where students chart the losses they've experienced.

"You may do your time, but you will never really get out".

Principal Hamilton believes that two of the kids will probably be sentenced to probation; the other may do jail time.

"Most competitors are doing point solutions (they may do real-time messaging for apps) or they may be device-centric (backends for mobile), but to truly create a serverless world, our infrastructure must support web and mobile," he says.

Given the chance to work, many women may do so part-time rather than full-time; some men with working partners may make the same choice.

If the author can forget Beckett, Ionesco and Simpson, he may do better next time.

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