Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among them was a young officer who was riding a mule ( which stubbornly stopped from time to time ) and roaring with laughter . |
| 2 | The ground has only one entrance , so long queues developed , and although the players all arrived on time , one of the staff was stranded at the back of the queue . |
| 3 | They walked slowly up the church path , past the old graves , those so seared by time and weather that they stood as grey shapes furred with lichen , names and dates no longer legible , uniform in obscurity . |
| 4 | I only just stopped in time . |
| 5 | We just seemed to time it wrong with the weather . |
| 6 | Doubting whether the traffic jam would have cleared by Wednesday , I finally arrived in time to miss my dental appointment and searched my mind for something pleasant to think of as I rejoined the traffic and inched my way back to the cottage . |
| 7 | Except in winter , when heavy snow sometimes delayed us and another engine had to come to the rescue , we generally arrived on time at Parma. just occasionally a tram car went off the rails ; perhaps Camera was overcome by the thrill of speed . |
| 8 | John talked to Sara but she did n't listen , just nodded from time to time . |
| 9 | A period of seven years was set as the publication cycle for new editions ; the sixteenth edition thus appeared on time in 1958 . |
| 10 | However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France . |
| 11 | Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time . |
| 12 | The ground still shook in time with the footsteps of the great beast . |
| 13 | And you always worked by time in stables , you 'd get out at say , you went at six o'clock , you got out till seven and were out two hours , that 's seven , eight , nine . |
| 14 | The words of the Spell picked just that moment to surface from the depths of his mind , as they always did in time of crisis . |
| 15 | Louis de Broglie also tried from time to time throughout his later life to find ways of reconciling quantum mechanics with a more deterministic picture . |
| 16 | The Secret Committee which Alexander set up to consider the matter also played for time . |
| 17 | The sub-conscious mind , it seems , also relied on time and chance . |
| 18 | And she even dropped from time to time the odd and flattering hint about the unique nature of her interest . |
| 19 | The next morning — or soon , anyway — Spunk was beamed up on to the bridge of the low-lying spaceship by the mischievous , conical , beep-voiced aliens , who then travelled through time and beamed Spunk down again into Greenwich Village , 1980 . |
| 20 | At first he thought it might be the Headmaster but even if he ran to check , he never arrived in time to find out who , or what it was . |
| 21 | Passenger trains never ran on time now . |