Example sentences of "to time and " in BNC.

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1 Remember to check on them from time to time and water them carefully if the compost seems dry .
2 Check from time to time and water if the compost is dry .
3 Start collecting our superb free Gardeners ' Manual and month by month it will build into a reference book you will turn to time and time again .
4 In any public confrontation a quick assessment and early resolution is the order of the day , for on the streets pragmatism always rules and ‘ real polises ’ set out immediately to ‘ fix ’ their adversaries by using deeply imbued constructs relating to time and space .
5 She became close to both women and , although she still saw her mother from time to time and still has a very strong relationship with her that has not been diminished by the divorce , a special bond was forged with the two older women .
6 The parents separated from time to time and the father also served a prison sentence .
7 Start collecting our superb free Gardeners ' Manual and month by month it will build into a reference book you will want to return to time and time again .
8 ( Foreigners , when it happened to them , sometimes considered it a manifestation of xenophobia ; but such evidence as there is suggests it was indiscriminate , an endemic propensity to sudden rigour which overcame individuals from time to time and afflicted everyone in contact with the official thus possessed . )
9 – Taken all in all , then , the land is intrinsically more intricate than the oceans ; it has more variation , from time to time and from place to place .
10 Systematic cleaning is the adoption of the right combination of energy for the circumstances with regard to time and cost .
11 They heard firing from time to time and at one point were challenged .
12 Olaf Pedersen has recently drawn attention to St Paul 's complete indifference to time and chronology : he never even dated his letters .
13 A far more modern attitude to time and dates was adopted in the Previous century by the famous Italian poet and reviver of classical literature Petrarch ( 1304–74 ) .
14 It 's all down to time and motion study ; fill seven haynets at the weekend and you 'll save yourself time in the week .
15 — orientating clients to time and place and appropriate behaviour
16 Karen brushed them off with talk of a ‘ little twinge ’ that she got from time to time and rose briskly to clear the table .
17 I cherished that dolly , kept on altering the face with new stitching from time to time and I still have it in a drawer somewhere .
18 When I was much younger I did take chances from time to time and can recall more than one close shave .
19 They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation .
20 A grand building — complete with pool and wonderful terraced gardens — perched on the hillside just outside the picturesque village of Deya , it 's the ind of place that people return to time and time again .
21 Exhibitions are held there from time to time and there is an art and craft gallery in the old vicarage opposite the church .
22 Say the following sentences up to time and you may have little difficulty in including the missing words shown by the dots .
23 Its content changes according to time and place .
24 Since it is accepted that the consensus varies according to time and place , it is not clear how one distinguishes between a legitimate consensus and a deviant subculture .
25 He argued that issues of fact were more difficult than in Britain because there was much false testimony and also because ‘ precision of observation with regard to time and distance is quite unknown to a large proportion of witnesses . ’
26 There were variations in the accuracy of these figures according to time and place , but these evened out over fairly large geographical areas and periods of time .
27 ‘ Mo is the type of character who needs an arm around his shoulder from time to time and a wee pat on the back to keep him going .
28 The easier alternative for video is to record the scene as a two-shot ( page 73 ) , the static nature of which can be relieved by discreetly zooming in and panning between the two speakers from time to time and then zooming back to the two-shot .
29 Stand back from time to time and take a look at the big picture .
30 A payment ( equivalent to time and a half on normal workdays and double time on Sundays and public holidays ) in respect of any additional hours worked as a result of extensions to licensing hours
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