Example sentences of "[adv prt] from time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 2 | We analysed these data ourselves , and found that many subject departments sent individuals or small groups to the library in connection with subject or project work , while others seem to have brought whole classes down from time to time . |
| 3 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 4 | Not a pleasant task but the men get a bit browned-off sitting on their hunkers here , doing precious little but dig , and insecure grumbles to their wives and girl friends creep in from time to time . |
| 5 | The hotel bookshop went on displaying Archer and Sheldon and Forsyth , happily oblivious to the world-famous authors who flitted in from time to time to paw the paperbacks . |
| 6 | What F writes need be no more than barely ‘ understandable ’ , provided that he throws in from time to time some ‘ historical terminology ’ , which he need not necessarily understand , nor use appropriately . |
| 7 | I might not always be there exactly when you want me , but I 'll check in from time to time . |
| 8 | ‘ But she would come in from time to time to inspect the ingredients and make sure everything was fresh , nothing frozen , dried or packeted , especially not the orange juice for breakfast , which had to be freshly squeezed from three kilos of oranges . |
| 9 | Even here , I expect his mother comes in from time to time and has a good old poke round . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Oh I 'll be popping in from time to time . |
| 13 | The first few days in Bavant were fairly quiet as far as the enemy activity was concerned , with a few mortar bombs coming over from time to time . |
| 14 | Peace with France came and food prices fell , but mob rule in Cornwall could still take over from time to time . |
| 15 | So they kill or look for carcasses already available and search them for beetles , spiders , maggots and the like , turning the bodies over from time to time to aid their search . |
| 16 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 17 | So they need fresh enemies ordered up from time to time just to keep their chins jutting . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | There are many other more common causes of aortic incompetence , including rheumatic fever , but cases of syphilitic aortic-valve disease still turn up from time to time in this country , albeit rarely . |
| 22 | A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ . |
| 23 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |
| 24 | It is never a good idea to sit for long periods but , if this is essential , get up from time to time in order to move the body . |
| 25 | Feasts are going to be cropping up from time to time as we move through the year , so it may be as well to explain that the word signifies , in Yorkshire , the yearly festival of the village or town . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | However , business lunches may crop up from time to time — and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants . |
| 28 | They turn up from time to time . ’ |
| 29 | If you are casting off a long length , then move the weight up from time to time , but always keep it actually on the cast off edge . |
| 30 | 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 . |