Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] time to time " in BNC.
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1 | they could only snatch a few minutes together from time to time , usually when Daddy came over to Low Fields to look after the cattle , or during the haytiming . |
2 | By evening she had picked her way down the cliff to the rocky ledges at the water 's edge , and was the object of interest of two seals , who popped their whiskery noses up from time to time to observe her . |
3 | If you are casting off a long length , then move the weight up from time to time , but always keep it actually on the cast off edge . |
4 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
5 | Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman . |
6 | We analysed these data ourselves , and found that many subject departments sent individuals or small groups to the library in connection with subject or project work , while others seem to have brought whole classes down from time to time . |
7 | Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " . |
8 | I just wanted to take up the point that 's been raised again , and it keeps popping its its little head up from time to time , this issue of building rates . |
9 | at the expense of the company they said you know , he , he says that er he says Martin had said to him , you know , you should take your sister out from time to time , there 's no reason why , you know , we we could n't |
10 | So they kill or look for carcasses already available and search them for beetles , spiders , maggots and the like , turning the bodies over from time to time to aid their search . |
11 | Either : place the pears in the saucepan with the boiled wine mixture and simmer for 10–15 minutes , turning the pears carefully from time to time to ensure even colouring . |
12 | It seemed to be RAF policy to shift people around from time to time , usually just as they were beginning to take root somewhere . |
13 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
14 | ‘ It 's one of those old chestnuts that crops up from time to time , ’ he said . |
15 | Fremont , California-based SyQuest Technology Inc is sweetening the pill of its profit shortfall by deciding to buy back up to 1m of its 11.4m common shares out from time to time on the open market . |
16 | They are precise in detail yet from time to time break away from the formal patterns of Petipa 's well-ordered conventions . |