Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unusual for her to have been alone then , but she had asked for time to herself . |
| 2 | Like Mrs Secretan , Elizabeth had married off a daughter , like her she had lived in fear ( then unfounded ) of cancer , and had felt uncomfortably sure that she had offended someone ; like Elinor Pringle she had filled up time in odd places , during short periods of being alone ; like Meg , she knew the fascination of the Thames estuary ; with Patrick Barlow she shared the accidie of the writer , and a love for the same sort of painting . |
| 3 | They heard firing from time to time and at one point were challenged . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 5 | Naturally , some of us continued to meet from time to time , constituting the Tyrrell Society in all but name . |