Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 motor vehicles owned by the Forestry Commission or by local authorities and used from time to time for the purpose of fighting fires ;
2 Specificity or the degree of specificity of indexing , must be established during planning for the index and reviewed from time to time thereafter .
3 It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean .
4 The television was not very good and the voice crackled and faded from time to time .
5 All patient areas require alteration , decoration and cleaning from time to time .
6 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 .
7 The latter place rather more emphasis on the social values and cultural meanings associated with family life , and look at change over time in the sentiments , attachments and emotions associated with different family relationships — usually between spouses and between parents and immature children , although in principle the same kind of analysis can be applied to the wider kin group .
8 I am functional on the methadone ; I can stand to get out of bed before three in the afternoon , I write poetry and draw from time to time , and even manage to socialise a little , dining at an occasional restaurant , catching the odd play .
9 I 'll make sure that er , I 've read that and talked to Jenny in time for the next meeting so we know where we stand .
10 As a member of the National Trust for Scotland for nearly 58 years , and having from time to time been involved in its affairs , I want to add my personal support to Douglas Connell 's proposition ( Points of View , 15 March ) that the functions of the National Heritage Memorial Fund ( in so far as they relate to Scotland ) should in future be carried out by a new body established in Scotland .
11 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 .
12 The drafter should bear in mind that statutes and standard form documents , such as Incoterms , are altered and updated from time to time .
13 Others , particularly those trained at the aforesaid establishments , absolutely loathed the sight of him and loved to recount his various gaffes and bêtises from time to time .
14 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 .
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