Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] from time to " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is a strange sensation , but many sense it from time to time : a consuming desire to part with money . |
| 5 | The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | to see you from time to time |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yes and the kids can drop round and see her from time to time . |
| 12 | She faced it from time to time , charged up her hate battery , reminded herself . |
| 13 | He phones me from time to time when he has heard something he thinks will be of use to me . |
| 14 | Friends of Piatakov restrained him from time to time lest Lenin discover the truth . |
| 15 | I get it from time to time . |
| 16 | These charges and interest rates are variable and the Bank reserves the right to amend them from time to time . |
| 17 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Everyone who has ever taken an exam will remember that feeling of complete and utter boredom that overwhelmed them from time to time . |
| 20 | Producer Duncan Weldon has asked him from time to time to do a tour but Courtenay has never responded until now . |
| 21 | Harrison v Hill [ 1932 ] SC ( J ) 13 where a road maintained by a farmer , leading from the public road to his farmhouse , was held to be a road , the farmer turned away people who were using it from time to time but it was also used by people having no business at the farm ; |
| 22 | Preference rules may be broken ; in fact it would be very difficult not to break them from time to time as some of them conflict . |
| 23 | The insurance companies anticipate maintaining the premium rates at current levels but they retain the right to review them from time to time , subject to giving each insured person 60 days notice of any change . |
| 24 | The Insurance Companies anticipate maintaining the premium rates at current levels but they retain the right to review them from time to time , subject to giving each insured person 60 days notice of any change . |
| 25 | Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock . |
| 26 | Finally , the Report suggested that the Minister might establish ‘ a small committee to advise her from time to time on the subjects and types of adult education courses which should receive priority in qualifying for grant ’ ( Recommendation 18 ) . |
| 27 | I am sure the answer is yes ; we all do it from time to time . |
| 28 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 29 | Keep a list of things you worry about and analyse it from time to time to see what your worrying changed . |
| 30 | This position is complicated by the fact that society has no established customs surrounding either the step-parent role or , perhaps even more acutely , the role of the divorced parent no longer living with his or her children but visiting them from time to time . |