Example sentences of "time [prep] time [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The family historian who has traced his ancestors back to nineteenth-century Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire or south Derbyshire will have seen parish registers that time after time give a man 's occupation as FWK .
2 Paisley has gone on record time after time to condemn the assassination of Catholics and has insisted that the potential violence represented by the old Protestant Volunteers and more recently by the Third Force should only be exercised in a defensive manner and in the event of a complete breakdown of law and order .
3 DROUGHT stricken farmers may be able to use the same water time after time to grow crops if experiments by scientists in Hampshire are successful .
4 The Chancery , i.e. the Chancellor 's office , has a power ( Statute of Westminster II 1285 ) of framing new writs in cansimili casu — i.e. to meet new cases sufficiently like those for which writs already exist — and new writs are from time to time framed .
5 6.4 Payments shall be made by cheque in US dollars to the bank account of , details of which are set out in Schedule 5 , or to an account at such other bank in England as may from time to time nominate for the purpose .
6 The agreements usually obliged the " licensees " , as they were called in the agreements , to share occupation with other persons the landlord might from time to time nominate , each to bear responsibility for part of the rent .
7 1.8 Interest rate % per year above the base lending rate of XY Bank [ Ltd or plc ] or such other bank [ being a member of the Committee of London and Scottish Bankers ] as the Landlord may from time to time nominate in writing
8 5.1.2 if so required in writing by the Landlord to make such payments by banker 's order or credit transfer to any bank and account [ in the United Kingdom ] that the Landlord may from time to time nominate There may be occasions where the tenant would wish to withhold rent or claim a set-off and while the point is worth negotiating , clause 5.1.1 is otherwise not unreasonable .
9 Do you pause from time to time to thank God for the hundred and one tiny joys that make up each day ?
10 He was perpetually in the grip of some obscure , niggling , unexplained bitterness , which led him to repudiate most of the overtures which Clara would from time to time make towards him ; she made these attempts because she was less frightened of him than she was of her mother , and she did on one or two occasions — the purchase of a bicycle , permission to go to the cinema — manage to enlist his sympathies .
11 The Trust will from time to time make market purchases of shares in the Company and make grants of the shares to such employees , funded by loans or grants from the Company .
12 Dumping her bags in the bedroom , she sat down at the kitchen table and began to sift lethargically through the pile of accumulated mail , from time to time eyeing the phone in the hall .
13 Similarly the seller under a contract of sale might undertake to use best endeavours to deliver the goods on time : The Sellers will use their best endeavours to secure delivery of the goods on the estimated delivery dates from time to time furnished , but they do not guarantee time of delivery .
14 Such comment may , and no doubt does , from time to time overstep boundaries acceptable to the individual or local authority so criticised .
15 Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans .
16 12.1 The Proprietor when called upon by the Publisher agrees to undertake routine updating revision and correction of the Work after publication and shall from time to time inform the Publisher of corrections and revisions which the Proprietor may consider desirable .
17 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 .
18 Charles kept the appellants waiting , bribing them from time to time to stop them becoming too impatient ; meanwhile his younger brother Louis Duke of Anjou concentrated on building up a party in Aquitaine , winning over many of the nobility of Pèrigord , Rouergue , Quercy and the Agenais by a judicious mixture of bribes and promises .
19 Fill the trench with water and progressively jump over it , from time to time removing a pole .
20 The professor will also be expected to undertake examining duties and such administrative tasks as will from time to time arise , including possibly being head of department ( see below ) .
21 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 .
22 Oliver likes to pretend he knows what I do , and chucks out the odd word from time to time to sound authoritative .
23 The idea was to put him in it from time to time to give his gammy leg a rest .
24 If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration .
25 2.6 " Insurance Cost " means the sums that the Landlord shall from time to time pay by way of premium :
26 2.6.1 for insuring the Centre or ( where such insurance includes the Centre and other premises ) such proportion [ reasonably ] attributable to the Centre of the sums that the Landlord shall from time to time pay by way of premium for insuring the Centre and other premises to be determined from time to time by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator
27 But as time went on and the numbers grew , more organized arrangements had to be made ; and the abbot of Cluny had from time to time to undertake mighty journeys .
28 They lit the candles they had brought and made their way along a passage which led out of the chamber , gazing wordlessly — he could n't remember that they had spoken at all while in there — at the arched limestone walls , at the tunnels that from time to time branched from this central artery , once into a wide gallery whose egress had been blocked by a fall of stone .
29 Picking her way carefully as he 'd instructed , Robbie paused from time to time to cast a puzzled look back at Fen .
30 My father was still forced from time to time to act as an interpreter , but from now on he spent much more time at home , rather than meeting his friends in the cafés for a game of cards .
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