Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
2 | Lighting seemed to be at one basic level regardless of time of day or night though was subtly achieved in the final scene . |
3 | Sexual need — sexual urge , libido , call it what you will — varies from person to person and , in the individual , varies somewhat from time to time . |
4 | The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time , but the main lines remained fairly stable . |
5 | Scapegoating tends to be a reciprocal matter and , especially in time of resource scarcity , anger and blame for the failure of ‘ the system ’ needs to find a target . |
6 | This means checking personally from time to time the output from your area , whether it be a shoelace , a bottle of beer , a written report , half an hour 's advice or a telephone call to a client . |
7 | Two-thirds of the BBC 's audience did so from time to time and a quarter of these were regular listeners . |
8 | Those appointed to the senior status of High Court judge will have acted as Recorders and will often have sat as Deputy High Court judges , having been invited to do so from time to time . |
9 | Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time . |
10 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
11 | Timber for construction needs to be acquired only from time to time , and enough firewood can be collected in one journey to last several months . |
12 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
13 | Unfortunately we managed to arrive only in time for his funeral . ’ |
14 | Television arrived here only in time for Christmas 1986 . |
15 | Swaying slightly and humming tunelessly in time with the tinny notes of the recording , Duclos waited until the door closed quietly behind her , then made his way unsteadily back to his seat . |
16 | While such solidarity may cause the nation to bind together from time to time as in 1940 , at present it-is of a divisive nature rather than unifying . |
17 | they could only snatch a few minutes together from time to time , usually when Daddy came over to Low Fields to look after the cattle , or during the haytiming . |
18 | Putting the bid together in time for the mid-December deadline has meant a £2 million outlay on LASMO 's part . |
19 | If she were still in Britain , it would be too late for her to say much in time for morning editions . |
20 | One of the few women who had done so over time without the complement of sexual gratification . |
21 | The latter 's research suggests that patients receiving clozapine may well cost services less over time by producing more positive clinical outcomes . |
22 | Anchor ice accumulations , being less dense than sea water , break away from time to time and rise to the surface , carrying with them entrapped and frozen plants and animals , which gather in layers under the inshore floes . |
23 | There is little to distinguish between the Italian character dance and its demi - caractère form save only that heeled shoes are worn and thus from time to time take on a slightly Spanish flavour , the only difference perhaps being the more fluid way of phrasing and less rigidly accurate timing of the steps . |
24 | If the capital market is imperfect such that the lending rate exceeds the borrowing rate , the results of the arbitrage argument may vary , depending on whether cash is being moved forwards in time at the lending rate , or backwards in time at the borrowing rate . |
25 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
26 | Working backwards in time from the present day offers a natural development of the approach used at Key Stage 1 . |
27 | The buildings were damaged by the fall of the campanile but rebuilt , just in time to be almost completely razed by fire . |
28 | The last secondary modern school in Banbury , nearly twenty years after the Act , had been established just in time to be reorganized . |
29 | Then a little further out blazes a great American packet ( the Roraima ) , which arrived on the scene just in time to be overwhelmed by the catastrophe . |
30 | The French applied the tourniquet just in time to stagger to a winning start . |