Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 6 | It was finally fixed in place and glazed just in time for a christening and the first flower festival to be held for a while . |
| 7 | Er , the other thing is of course colleagues that the doors at the side are , are open for very good reasons and I mentioned yesterday from time to time that once we get er we get talking there 's a that goes and colleagues at the side of Congress have a great deal of difficulty in hearing and listening to the debate . |
| 8 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 9 | I know now I 'd never have caught up in time in my old car . |
| 10 | Even when published , aspects of APPN networking remain covered by IBM patents , and Data Connection says it is negotiating with the mainframe manufacturer and hopes to have this sorted out in time for the InterOp show later this month . |
| 11 | Commercial users of grain such as brewers of beer or vinegar or producers of starch were also picked out from time to time . |
| 12 | Rangers ' pitch will now be lifted at the earliest opportunity and a new one laid in its place , so long as the work can be carried out in time for the new season . |
| 13 | It is a principle that the PA has pursued consistently in time of crisis : successfully for books when sanctions were imposed on Rhodesia and South Africa , less so during the war with Argentina . |
| 14 | If he could have looked ahead through time at his counterpart in the late 1980s , would he have been scornful of his sunglasses , his insignia of rank , his fat-cat complacent air ? |
| 15 | Oh what joy , as the swing of the '60s gave way to the pong of the '70s , as flares creaked muddily in time to a trenchant progfolk-jazz-R&B soundtrack and the likes of Genesis , Rory Gallagher , Van Der Graaf Generator , Brewer 's Droop and Greenslade became the staple Reading fare . |
| 16 | The book was completed just in time for him to dedicate it to King Charles II at the Restoration . |
| 17 | Luckily , this example of bureaucracy gone mad was stopped just in time by Kenneth Clarke , who was watching cricket at Trent Bridge and got a call on his mobile phone about Johan 's case . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , they were able to continue the art classes ( to Leonard 's chagrin , a Saturday morning event ) alongside needlework and other crafts , which were exhibited locally from time to time . |
| 19 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
| 20 | One of the few women who had done so over time without the complement of sexual gratification . |
| 21 | Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time . |
| 22 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 23 | The Gutenberg Galaxy was the invention of the printing press which came just in time for the Reformation . |
| 24 | ‘ The ground was very fast at York which he does n't like and the rain came just in time for us on Saturday . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 27 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |
| 28 | The commons accepted these arguments , and direct taxation became in effect a regular impost , levied both in time of war and time of truce . |
| 29 | The complex adaptation of the organism to its physical and organic environment was built up over time through the constant application of pressures that are never stable . |
| 30 | Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed . |