Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] from time to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karen brushed them off with talk of a ‘ little twinge ’ that she got from time to time and rose briskly to clear the table . |
| 2 | Jessica followed closely , watching the stop-lights and the curly hair she caught from time to time around the head restraint on his front seat . |
| 3 | ‘ How frightful , ’ she murmured from time to time , as Mrs. Mounce catalogued another misfortune , another misunderstanding . |
| 4 | By earning a pittance as a contributor to learned periodicals , she managed from time to time to share rooms in London with friends . |
| 5 | Her legs began to hurt and she considered from time to time the possibility of varicose veins . |
| 6 | Here at Practical PC , we 've had AUTOEXEC.BATs full of REMmed lines — alternative command lines that needed editing to make changes in the various programs and drivers we used from time to time . |
| 7 | we stopped from time to time |
| 8 | We flirted from time to time with good-looking or not-so-good-looking men in the company . |
| 9 | In addition , they suffered from time to time through gaps in chairmanship because ministers had failed to appoint in time . |
| 10 | Of course they died from time to time , so there was a light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 11 | If they did look out the sentries had orders to fire on them , which they did from time to time although no one was ever injured . |
| 12 | He was charming , and found women desirable , so inevitably he weakened from time to time . |
| 13 | He woke from time to time and on each occasion drank a little more . |
| 14 | He was employed on the reconstruction of the bishop of Winchester 's palace at Wolvesey , and he acted from time to time as architect as well as builder . |
| 15 | Another expression of this psychic force is found in the cynicism and bitterness he displayed from time to time when he grumbles about the dark , the flies and the cold ; but other references are very much stronger , e.g. ‘ The Cuckold 's Song ’ etc ) . |
| 16 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 17 | Oh it varied from time to time . |
| 18 | I made it a rule — which , it is true , he broke from time to time when he had something particularly pressing or intimate to convey — that he should not drop into French while we were together . |
| 19 | No matter how paranoid he felt from time to time about the DIA , Coleman could not conceive that Control would have told him to get hold of a legitimate Thomas Leavy passport for Operation Shakespeare knowing in advance that it would blow the mission and lead to his arrest . |
| 20 | He sat on a chair facing the desk and did not look at Mr Rose , though he did from time to time tilt his head to measure the angled slices of building and reflected light arranged by the blind . |
| 21 | He wondered from time to time what sort of a life she led in that remote cottage with her writer friend , how far it had satisfied her . |