Example sentences of "from time [prep] time [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do not review our knowledge from time to time it becomes lost to us and we find ourselves thinking within a shrinking field . |
| 2 | The Whitebred/Welsh Black cross is known as the Blue Albion and from time to time it has been classified as a separate breed . |
| 3 | ‘ But from time to time it has been right to reconsider its detailed application . |
| 4 | From time to time he takes his team away for a couple of days to provide a further stimulus . |
| 5 | From time to time he wanders off and chats to someone . |
| 6 | Patience is not what we associate with Pound , and from time to time he seems to have kicked over the traces ( at least once to be ticked off for it by Dorothy ) : yet we see all over again that the young Pound was well content with Edwardian England , was hopeful of it and ready to abide by its rules in everything that mattered . |
| 7 | Thus , " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified , or so as to be unlike those from whom he wishes to be distinguished " ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 181 ) |
| 8 | This brings us back to Le Page 's hypothesis : " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified " ; only now we can treat " linguistic behaviour " at a micro level , interpreting " from time to time " to mean even at different stages within the same conversation — perhaps even the same utterance . |