Example sentences of "was from time to time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be called upon at any time and indeed was from time to time . |
| 2 | Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement . |
| 3 | He was from time to time ordered to raise money by leasing out assarts and waste lands , and by organizing and supervising sales of timber and underwood . |
| 4 | In any event , on this picture , he was from time to time spectacularly taken with a seizure of one kind or another . ’ |
| 5 | Lessing was a man of many parts — writer , literary critic , historian , advocate of religious tolerance — who also made pioneering contributions to the study of the New Testament , and was from time to time embroiled in the continuing controversies between rationalism and orthodoxy . |