Example sentences of "from [noun] to time [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , moreover , a hope which the French encouraged from time to time although what was achieved seemed always to be less than what was promised . |
| 2 | Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock . |
| 3 | Feasts are going to be cropping up from time to time as we move through the year , so it may be as well to explain that the word signifies , in Yorkshire , the yearly festival of the village or town . |
| 4 | The will contained a direction for the trustees , out of the net income of the proportionate share of the estate held in trust for any child , to make such provision from time to time as they in their uncontrolled discretion might think necessary or advisable for the suitable maintenance and education of such a child . |
| 5 | Part of the procedure is to re-present the image from time to time as its shape becomes clearer : ‘ In the days of Arab government Zuwaya distributed tax revenues to household heads , so that there should be no treasury ; and you did this ; and you did that … |
| 6 | Maureen answered straight away , and listened eagerly , giving excited squeaks from time to time as her niece brought her up to date on everything that had happened . |
| 7 | The one I have chosen is this — brief , informal letters , written from time to time as our work proceeds , in a plain , straightforward style , as it might be to a friend . |
| 8 | Resting on three stones above the flames was a large copper pan full of milk , which Sigarup stirred from time to time as it was boiling . |
| 9 | He gave me a few quick , curious glances from time to time as I slowly sipped my coffee , but he did not appear to have heard any of the rumours . |
| 10 | From time to time as he read his salutation from a sheet of paper held before him in a white-gloved hand , the Resident Superior squinted at the emperor through his monocle ; his voice was loud and confident and betrayed little outward sign of the extreme deference implied in his spoken words . |
| 11 | And from time to time because they will take those hard decisions , those decisions may not be popular . |
| 12 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 13 | She works in the bookshop from time to time cos she 's only got the two has n't she , Robin and Stephan . |
| 14 | There has been the occasional quickening of the establishment pulse from time to time when one in line to succeed to the Crown has seemed to develop too intense an interest in a Roman Catholic but despite that , the anticipated line of succession has been perfectly followed subject to only one scandalous disruption when Edward VIII preferred to marry a divorcee to retaining the monarchy . |
| 15 | But a diminishing , though still powerful , minority ensured that the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was kept alive and could even be temporarily revitalized from time to time when there was a transient upturn in Germany 's fortunes or the promise of suitable retaliation for people 's miseries . |
| 16 | Another expression of this psychic force is found in the cynicism and bitterness he displayed from time to time when he grumbles about the dark , the flies and the cold ; but other references are very much stronger , e.g. ‘ The Cuckold 's Song ’ etc ) . |
| 17 | I made it a rule — which , it is true , he broke from time to time when he had something particularly pressing or intimate to convey — that he should not drop into French while we were together . |
| 18 | He phones me from time to time when he has heard something he thinks will be of use to me . |
| 19 | Such a calculation is not a perfect one , and there is bound to be a failure from time to time if you are really trying to achieve that objective . |