Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] from time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er unfortunately one has cases from time to time on girls of this age who set out to entice men . |
| 2 | The B.C. Electric Co. sponsored a broadcast series of symphony concerts making use of famous conductors who visited Vancouver from time to time . |
| 3 | We visited Edinburgh from time to time and one evening were invited by the Queen to a dance at Holyrood House . |
| 4 | The view that the Lord 's Day is essentially the Jewish Sabbath — a ‘ taboo ’ day — transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week found expression from time to time in medieval law and theology . |
| 5 | As a part of that we intend to arrange excursions from time to time , and there will be winter lectures . |
| 6 | The nurse will know that her situation will present conflict from time to time , but that this is recognised . |
| 7 | He had seen Hugo from time to time in the intervening years ; he knew from Hugo 's cousin Christian that his former tutor had fallen on hard times . |
| 8 | I receive representations from time to time about various aspects of the home improvement grants scheme and its operation ; in the main those concern individual cases . |
| 9 | In County Durham police officers at Bishop Auckland , Darlington , Chester-le-Street and Consett have all been required to guard convicts from time to time . |
| 10 | ‘ We also take in paying guests from time to time , ’ said Ernest awkwardly . |
| 11 | There is evidence to suggest that young swains showed interest from time to time but were probably defeated by lack of time and opportunity on the one hand and by Hannah 's shy , reserved nature on the other . |
| 12 | A clause which merely imposes on the parties an obligation to renegotiate prices from time to time , once an initial period has elapsed , will simply turn the agreement , on the lapse of the initial period , into an agreement to agree , which is then void for uncertainty . |
| 13 | After taking up the post , the professor will become eligible for consideration , in reviews which will take place from time to time , for one of a small number of additional awards which may be made in recognition of outstanding academic distinction and/or contribution to the academic work of the University ( e.g. in leadership in , or in the development of , some field of study ) . |
| 14 | While central Government will certainly wish to exercise its rights to alter spending priorities from time to time , even their own goals will not often be achieved by fiddling with elements of an extremely complicated formula , which introduces unexpected as well as intended change . |
| 15 | When I was much younger I did take chances from time to time and can recall more than one close shave . |
| 16 | He also said he knew she took cocaine from time to time . |
| 17 | The Regional Council will continue to issue information from time to time to keep staff advised . |
| 18 | Alf and Bessie lived in Cricklewood , and would receive visits from time to time from Bessie 's sister Minnie who , having worked alongside her father at Curry Rivel School for a while , later became headmistress of a similar but smaller establishment in Newton St Loe , Somerset . |
| 19 | He continued to paint and write poetry from time to time but he was now a professional and energetic film director , turning out twenty documentaries during the next eleven years . |
| 20 | The local authorities are expected to assess and identify the combination of services that best suits the needs and circumstances of an individual , and to monitor the quality of care provided and to review matters from time to time . |
| 21 | The house surgeon received £3.3s.0d. for attending a coroner 's inquest on a patient who had died in the infirmary , and Samuel Whitbread , in his capacity as magistrate , exacted contributions from time to time : in August 1813 , for example , the infirmary funds benefited by £10 which had been received from John Schoner and William Edwards ‘ paid in atonement to stay of prosecution for disturbing the Methodist meeting at Biggleswade during Divine Service ’ . |
| 22 | Meanwhile our lord and master would sit and drink one cup of tea after another , barking orders from time to time . |
| 23 | They would have to honour their homework commitments and take part from time to time in residential field trips and work experience courses . |
| 24 | Ad hoc alliances of green organizations take place from time to time , and at the end of 1988 Greenpeace , Friends of the Earth and the World Wide Fund for Nature jointly threw down a ‘ green gauntlet ’ to the government , urging it to turn propaganda about the environment into action . |
| 25 | While they were at the mercy of erratic weather or changes in the migration routes of reindeer , so that they might suffer famine from time to time , they were generally well fed , more or less comfortably adapted to their environment , and enjoyed a surplus of resources sufficient to allow expenditure of time on the decoration of clothing and utensils on story-telling and dancing . |
| 26 | In its place , the Home Secretary would appoint a standing Advisory Council to report and make recommendations from time to time on such aspects of penal treatment as he might refer to it or as the Council itself , having consulted the Home Secretary , felt that it ought to consider . |
| 27 | Concentrations of apatite , magnetite , and base metals ( Notholt and others , 1985 ) have aroused interest from time to time . |
| 28 | I have difficulty from time to time in persuading some of my colleagues to believe that a boy not yet 21 could amass so much experience in such a short time ; he had completed two tours and looked like completing a third . |
| 29 | All plans need revision from time to time and difficulties arise in reading the networks after several such changes . |
| 30 | All plans need revision from time to time and difficulties arise in reading the networks after several such changes . |