Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend , who has been courteous and kind in meeting delegations led by me and by other hon. Members to discuss the problem , has pointed out from time to time that the scheme is the responsibility of the county council . |
| 2 | In consequence , that aspect of it which links it with previous practice has diminished almost at times to the point of disappearance . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | I get chatted up from time to time , though if you have a small child — ’ she glanced through the mirror at Thomas ‘ — not too many men want to become involved . |
| 5 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 6 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 7 | Wallace saw the great northern continents of Eurasia and North America as the chief focus of progressive evolution from which higher types had radiated out from time to time . |
| 8 | Professional verdict : It looks like they 've gone back in time to the Fifties — not very practical |
| 9 | It was as if Jack had stepped back in time to the scene of an earlier age . |
| 10 | Various members of his family have resided there from time to time . |