Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The soil should be kept moist , but never saturated , by sprinkling it gently with water from time to time . |
| 2 | Sexual need — sexual urge , libido , call it what you will — varies from person to person and , in the individual , varies somewhat from time to time . |
| 3 | The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time , but the main lines remained fairly stable . |
| 4 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 5 | We analysed these data ourselves , and found that many subject departments sent individuals or small groups to the library in connection with subject or project work , while others seem to have brought whole classes down from time to time . |
| 6 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 7 | Not a pleasant task but the men get a bit browned-off sitting on their hunkers here , doing precious little but dig , and insecure grumbles to their wives and girl friends creep in from time to time . |
| 8 | The hotel bookshop went on displaying Archer and Sheldon and Forsyth , happily oblivious to the world-famous authors who flitted in from time to time to paw the paperbacks . |
| 9 | What F writes need be no more than barely ‘ understandable ’ , provided that he throws in from time to time some ‘ historical terminology ’ , which he need not necessarily understand , nor use appropriately . |
| 10 | I might not always be there exactly when you want me , but I 'll check in from time to time . |
| 11 | ‘ But she would come in from time to time to inspect the ingredients and make sure everything was fresh , nothing frozen , dried or packeted , especially not the orange juice for breakfast , which had to be freshly squeezed from three kilos of oranges . |
| 12 | Even here , I expect his mother comes in from time to time and has a good old poke round . ’ |
| 13 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 14 | It seemed to me that the theatre I wanted to work in from time to time was the British theatre , so I have never contemplated living in America . |
| 15 | Oh I 'll be popping in from time to time . |
| 16 | This means checking personally from time to time the output from your area , whether it be a shoelace , a bottle of beer , a written report , half an hour 's advice or a telephone call to a client . |
| 17 | Two-thirds of the BBC 's audience did so from time to time and a quarter of these were regular listeners . |
| 18 | Those appointed to the senior status of High Court judge will have acted as Recorders and will often have sat as Deputy High Court judges , having been invited to do so from time to time . |
| 19 | Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time . |
| 20 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 21 | Timber for construction needs to be acquired only from time to time , and enough firewood can be collected in one journey to last several months . |
| 22 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
| 23 | While such solidarity may cause the nation to bind together from time to time as in 1940 , at present it-is of a divisive nature rather than unifying . |
| 24 | they could only snatch a few minutes together from time to time , usually when Daddy came over to Low Fields to look after the cattle , or during the haytiming . |
| 25 | They manned the barricades — did a good job , but survival was down to luck at times . |
| 26 | WHEN a Charlton chief sat down to dinner in times gone by and found a spur on the table where his meal should have been , he knew the cupboard was bare once . |
| 27 | It also has a good reputation for retaining its good appearance over along period of time . |
| 28 | In addition to that , John Prescott was mentioned , and John could not attend the meetings that he does around the country if he did not have the facility to be able to be away from Parliament during times when erm , there are votes that need to be taken . |
| 29 | Anchor ice accumulations , being less dense than sea water , break away from time to time and rise to the surface , carrying with them entrapped and frozen plants and animals , which gather in layers under the inshore floes . |
| 30 | There is little to distinguish between the Italian character dance and its demi - caractère form save only that heeled shoes are worn and thus from time to time take on a slightly Spanish flavour , the only difference perhaps being the more fluid way of phrasing and less rigidly accurate timing of the steps . |