Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Commercial users of grain such as brewers of beer or vinegar or producers of starch were also picked out from time to time . |
| 3 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
| 4 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 5 | The Queen , Queen Mother and Princes William , 10 , and Harry , eight , also turned up in time for lunch in the royal shooting lodge . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 8 | A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Heseltine has been forced to pull out of a Birmingham conference on global technology today as a contingency to allow the final details to be tied up in time for presentation to the Cabinet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A new Expert book has been brought out in time for Christmas . |
| 13 | Hoops used to be brought out from time to time , to become a craze , then be forgotten again . |
| 14 | We hope the branches and members w w will believe those reports because they will be the truth , and not some of the more highly coloured statements which I 'm sure will be put around from time to time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the thirteenth century , itinerant royal justices were sent out from time to time with a list of enquiries to put to local communities . |
| 17 | Reese ( Michael Biehn ) , a human guerrilla , is simultaneously sent back in time by Connor to protect Sarah and , unwittingly , to ensure Connor 's own conception . |