Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] from time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my own case by the time I became chairman of ICI , I had not actively sold in the marketplace for nine years , although , of course , as a director of a large international company I was involved from time to time in negotiations of one sort or another . |
| 2 | Govan car sheds were reputedly haunted by a figure which was seen from time to time in a driving compartment of a car but on investigation the figure had disappeared and was nowhere to be found ; the cab was empty yet strangely cold ! |
| 3 | And that small , dark young man Simon Westward , who was seen from time to time around Knockglen , he was Eve 's first cousin . |
| 4 | In this area , however , during the Quaternary they were invaded from time to time by thick wedges of debris flows . |
| 5 | ‘ I believe he was lost from time to time , but that of course is inevitable in a down-market operation . |
| 6 | Though he was questioned from time to time about radical plots and was even for a while held in the Tower , his claim to be moved now by conscience and not by political faction seems to have been accepted . |