Example sentences of "[pers pn] from time to time " in BNC.
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| 31 | She lived with the child and her father stayed with them from time to time in the flat on the north side of Glasgow . |
| 32 | Friends of Piatakov restrained him from time to time lest Lenin discover the truth . |
| 33 | I know Mother traded with him from time to time , and once sent a quantity of wool away to another mill and had some back as grey blankets . |
| 34 | The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion . |
| 35 | He told me that he called regularly at Koraloona , and that I probably would run across him from time to time . |
| 36 | While Oliver was eating , the strange boy looked at him from time to time with great attention . |
| 37 | And although the Robemaker lashed out at him from time to time with the thin , cruel rope-lights , he managed not to flinch . |
| 38 | Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock . |
| 39 | He said : ‘ When your brother Maurice 's wife was ill and David was an infant I understand you looked after him from time to time . ’ |
| 40 | Kate did not seem to play a great part in her husband 's political life : she appeared on platforms with him from time to time , but she was by no means an automatic member of his entourage . |
| 41 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 42 | It was conceivable , she supposed , that if she remained in the village she might see him from time to time , and if she was lucky , she thought bleakly , he might even speak to her . |
| 43 | Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest . |
| 44 | Producer Duncan Weldon has asked him from time to time to do a tour but Courtenay has never responded until now . |
| 45 | Finally , the Report suggested that the Minister might establish ‘ a small committee to advise her from time to time on the subjects and types of adult education courses which should receive priority in qualifying for grant ’ ( Recommendation 18 ) . |
| 46 | Timothy , although a regular caller , had n't mentioned the alternative to Yelton again , but the way he looked at her from time to time made words unnecessary . |
| 47 | Crump was a kindly man and his kindness to his wife had resulted in his being made to appear in thrall to her from time to time . |
| 48 | Because she is a woman , John glances at her from time to time : because she is a woman . |
| 49 | And they all smiled at her from time to time . |
| 50 | The warmth that Alain had shown her from time to time had quite gone now and she knew he would continue to be an enemy . |
| 51 | Owen waited as usual for her to recover , talking quietly meanwhile with Jane Postlethwaite , who stole a glance at her from time to time , sympathetic and concerned but also slightly at a loss . |
| 52 | Yes and the kids can drop round and see her from time to time . |
| 53 | Mr Peter the consultant orthopaedic surgeon who tended her first immediately after the accident at Hinchinbrook and thereafter in the year from April nineteen eighteen eight as well as seeing her from time to time since , had this to say about her parent 's efforts quote I think that without their constant support and stimulation and their determination that Anna Jane would function again as a rational human being . |
| 54 | She was aware of those sapphire-hued eyes following her from time to time , resting on her , evaluating her . |
| 55 | Comrade Yu our local interpreter is a young woman with pigtails and who is constantly breaking into smiles and laughs , especially when we try out our broken Chinese on her from time to time . |
| 56 | Erm no I I honestly do n't think that er that the the problem is as big as as big as you you say it is and I I think the the structures are there to deal with that and if if people had you know if people used them then they would they would work and they from time to time that they are used and you know it it is not impossible to get rid of rid of a teacher in in the way you are suggesting . |
| 57 | We find allusive reference to it from time to time in Leonard 's writings and songs — always with a frisson of awe . |
| 58 | When you type in a document , saving it from time to time , Word does not destroy the very last version that you saved but renames it as a back-up copy . |
| 59 | Keep a list of things you worry about and analyse it from time to time to see what your worrying changed . |
| 60 | I am sure the answer is yes ; we all do it from time to time . |