Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your new patio will be designed and built in time for spring when you can really enjoy it to the full . |
| 2 | The television was not very good and the voice crackled and faded from time to time . |
| 3 | It rose and fell in time with the drums and gongs which continued to fill the hut with their relentless clamour . |
| 4 | When she came out , Iris was on the balcony doing her morning routine of breathing exercises , straight-backed , the sleeves of her cotton robe falling away from her thin arms as they rose and fell in time with the rhythmic and somewhat noisy intake and expulsion of air . |
| 5 | Through the cloudburst I could see the old men laying out their prayer carpets under the arches , then , on a signal from the mullah , a line of bottoms rose and fell in time to the distant cries of ‘ Allah hu-Akbar ! ’ |
| 6 | The puddings are unpacked in the morning , driven over to the hospital kitchens for steaming and collected in time for dinner . |
| 7 | Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker . |
| 8 | Sharp at nine a conch shell sounded and the temple courtyard filled up with Thais , dressed in white trousers with embroidered aprons , chanting and shaking in time to gongs . |
| 9 | The ghostly cloud hung beneath the nets , tumbling and churning in time to the pulsing rhythm of the music . |
| 10 | Diplomatic missions were received and sent from time to time , and during the sixteenth century Japanese traders and pirates dominated the seas of Southeast Asia , but both channels of contact virtually ceased in the seclusion period . |
| 11 | The drafter should bear in mind that statutes and standard form documents , such as Incoterms , are altered and updated from time to time . |
| 12 | But Minch had often told him that faith in Callanish waxed and waned through time as the wind itself changes through the day , and that eagles often forgot it , and wanted to forget . |
| 13 | Dexter had allowed himself to be hypnotised and still remembered staring into those wide eyes , as blue as the top of a ballpoint pen , with pupils that shrank and swelled in time to the man 's words . |
| 14 | He moved his arm into a myo-feedback harness ; a mechanical specimen grip unfolded and flexed in time with his movements . |
| 15 | Once this process is complete , the compost is ready for the land , and any further storage will result in some loss , unless it is kept covered and turned from time to time . |
| 16 | Private MPs rise and ask for time for this or that motion or debate which they particularly want , but normally the only concessions the Leader of the House will make is through ‘ the usual channels ’ , that is in private discussions with the opposition Chief Whip . |