Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France . |
| 2 | An evening with a breeze ; I could see movement in the bracken that edged the track , and cloud-shadows moved from time to time over the sea-pinks . |
| 3 | In fact , the behaviour of the janissaries bred a smouldering resentment which erupted from time to time into acts of armed resistance . |
| 4 | Jessica followed closely , watching the stop-lights and the curly hair she caught from time to time around the head restraint on his front seat . |
| 5 | Among them was a young officer who was riding a mule ( which stubbornly stopped from time to time ) and roaring with laughter . |
| 6 | we stopped from time to time |
| 7 | If you work regularly for one agency you may want to have your position and experience reviewed from time to time , so that future work you undertake can be constructive and part of bona fide career development . |
| 8 | Specificity or the degree of specificity of indexing , must be established during planning for the index and reviewed from time to time thereafter . |
| 9 | This is Rupert , a 5 month old Barn Owl who was deserted by his parents at a few days old , but found in time to be saved and hand reared . |
| 10 | They bounced from wall to wall , crossing and recrossing , and the violet light flickered in time with the sound . |
| 11 | Louis de Broglie also tried from time to time throughout his later life to find ways of reconciling quantum mechanics with a more deterministic picture . |
| 12 | Frequently generals thought it best if they were outmanoeuvred to in effect accept an honourable surrender er and er bargains of this kind occurred from time to time between largely mercenary armies . |
| 13 | ( 1 ) A recognised body which is a company limited by shares shall insure with authorised insurers against the losses referred to in paragraph ( 3 ) of this Rule over and above the maximum indemnity provided from time to time by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund . |
| 14 | motor vehicles owned by the Forestry Commission or by local authorities and used from time to time for the purpose of fighting fires ; |
| 15 | Here at Practical PC , we 've had AUTOEXEC.BATs full of REMmed lines — alternative command lines that needed editing to make changes in the various programs and drivers we used from time to time . |
| 16 | Truman played for time by appointing a brains trust of three to advise him . |
| 17 | He was charming , and found women desirable , so inevitably he weakened from time to time . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Apple is predicting that it will have at least 70% of Macintosh applications recoded in time for the first batch of volume PowerPCs to hit the streets in 1993 , using AT&T Bell Laboratories spin-off , the Holmdel , New Jersey-based Echo Logic Inc , to do the recompiling . |
| 19 | Resting on three stones above the flames was a large copper pan full of milk , which Sigarup stirred from time to time as it was boiling . |
| 20 | And she even dropped from time to time the odd and flattering hint about the unique nature of her interest . |
| 21 | In addition , they suffered from time to time through gaps in chairmanship because ministers had failed to appoint in time . |
| 22 | He woke from time to time and on each occasion drank a little more . |
| 23 | His nerves jangled in time with the balls on the executive toy on his desk and his brain felt as thick and muzzy as the grey January sky above the skyscrapers of Manhattan . |
| 24 | In order to avoid this result the draftsman should define a reference to an Act of Parliament etc as including a reference to that Act etc as amended or re-enacted from time to time . |
| 25 | Fortunately help came in time on that particular day . |
| 26 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 27 | Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time . |
| 28 | ‘ How frightful , ’ she murmured from time to time , as Mrs. Mounce catalogued another misfortune , another misunderstanding . |
| 29 | Last year , the rains came on time in April . |
| 30 | It was , moreover , a hope which the French encouraged from time to time although what was achieved seemed always to be less than what was promised . |