Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 2 | ‘ Moray and the north will always be his , and the rest would have joined them in time with no more than what he was offering : equal rule , equal justice , equal worship . |
| 3 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 4 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 5 | Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam who , in the face of deafening criticism , has always defended the restoration , admitted that Goldreyer did not bother to inform him in time about his plans for the last phase of the restoration in which the painted surface was to be treated . |
| 6 | And leved he in time of blody kinges |
| 7 | It is a strange sensation , but many sense it from time to time : a consuming desire to part with money . |
| 8 | Ronni looked into his eyes and smiled at the compliment , inwardly shuddering as he took her in his arms and proceeded to lead her in time to the music . |
| 9 | The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One of the problems in your case is , we 've never really been able to Cos i i When we when we 've examined you from time to time , things come and gone . |
| 12 | to see you from time to time |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yes and the kids can drop round and see her from time to time . |
| 16 | She faced it from time to time , charged up her hate battery , reminded herself . |
| 17 | He phones me from time to time when he has heard something he thinks will be of use to me . |
| 18 | Friends of Piatakov restrained him from time to time lest Lenin discover the truth . |
| 19 | I get it from time to time . |
| 20 | the bumper bundle of review samples they were sending has n't reached us in time for this issue , though , so look out next month for further toe-tappin' details ! |
| 21 | These charges and interest rates are variable and the Bank reserves the right to amend them from time to time . |
| 22 | You 'll have them in time for the competition perhaps . ’ |
| 23 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 24 | On four Thursday evenings during the winter she could be seen , dressed in spotty black and glittering with rhinestones , sawing happily away on her violin through four public concerts , under the baton of Mr Dixon , the elderly English master from Tollemarche public school , who tried gamely to keep the rest of the orchestra in time with her , since he had long ago given up trying to keep her in time with the orchestra . |
| 25 | They are desperate to furnish it in time for their Easter service . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He knows that if he helps them in time of need , they will reciprocate without being asked . |
| 28 | Everyone who has ever taken an exam will remember that feeling of complete and utter boredom that overwhelmed them from time to time . |
| 29 | Producer Duncan Weldon has asked him from time to time to do a tour but Courtenay has never responded until now . |
| 30 | The question is whether the voters will realise it in time for polling day . |