Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from time to time " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Commercial users of grain such as brewers of beer or vinegar or producers of starch were also picked out from time to time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
| 10 | Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Other sorts of dates do , however , crop up from time to time , namely the regnal year of a particular ruler , such as one of the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt . |
| 16 | However , business lunches may crop up from time to time — and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants . |
| 17 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 18 | Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow . |
| 19 | Wallace saw the great northern continents of Eurasia and North America as the chief focus of progressive evolution from which higher types had radiated out from time to time . |
| 20 | To a very large extent this is what Ashton does in A Month in the Country where the non-dancers speak out from time to time in explicit gestures . |
| 21 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 22 | I just pop up from time to time to see if Bob 's all right . ’ |
| 23 | Price was working in Sheffield but was willing to help out from time to time . |
| 24 | Stand back from time to time and take a look at the big picture . |
| 25 | Peter erm you 'll see around from time to time , he does all the design stuff erm and Christine erm looks after all the hangings and and stuff . |
| 26 | The Collector 's mind had wandered yet again , though he nodded intelligently from time to time , hoping thus to soothe the Padre . |
| 27 | The University 's Alumni Office can provide help and advice to groups , whether they consist of a few friends who meet informally from time to time , a group from a particular department or year who wish to arrange a special reunion , or a more established society like the ones described on these pages . |
| 28 | Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time . |
| 29 | Oh I 'll be popping in from time to time . |
| 30 | 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 . |