Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 2 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 3 | It must cost them more in time in getting that penny out you know |
| 4 | Well , half fiveish normally , cos because you had to make your own round up , mark the papers and then , say , six o'clock and it lasted possibly three hours , you just in time for you to get to school for probably ten past nine . |
| 5 | A visit to our unique museum will transport you back in time to wartime Britain . |
| 6 | Bypassed by modern roads , access is along narrow lanes which seem to take one back in time to a more tranquil age . |
| 7 | In a third class of cases we may take the latest condition , the one closest in time to the effect , as the cause . |
| 8 | Do you take them out from time to time and gloat ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ They let me out from time to time , ’ he stated seriously . |
| 10 | Central Districts were top of the Shell Trophy at last report , and are there again at time of writing . |
| 11 | And so she continued , through three years , through a series of such violent changes ; she inspected herself anxiously from time to time for signs of manic-depression or schizophrenia , but she could find nothing but symptoms of increasingly quick recovery . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | With full heart , Shelley drove through the silent , magic dawn , looking at him sideways from time to time . |
| 14 | The disapproval she had sometimes sensed from him , and that had bothered her fleetingly from time to time , had erupted into a torrent of burning hatred at the discovery that , in spite of the fortune his father had showered on him , Ryan had died in a state of virtual penury . |
| 15 | Then on , they 'd got it on from time to happy time , eaten together every week , seen movies , theatre , films , drag , done disco , reggae , boogie … |
| 16 | Most of the away fans would make it down in time for the game and little else . |
| 17 | I think the next person in the house to leave their pit made it just in time for ‘ Playschool ’ . |
| 18 | The whole walk took in excess of nine hours , so not one to consider if you want to make it home in time for Blind Date . |
| 19 | But he did n't turn round and I saw only his receding back , the narrow shoulders squared , the bent legs stepping it out in time with his men . |
| 20 | The reason being that way back in 1990 the Leinster Division won the cup and its return to England was somewhat delayed , in fact , it did n't make it back in time for the 1991 competition when Western were the victors . |
| 21 | it did n't even make it back in time for 1992 when there was no competition so now it 's back in the UK it is appropriate that Western can enjoy its company . |
| 22 | Instead Rosa waited in church before the eleven o'clock Mass , in the side chapel of the Madonna of the Spasm , and tried to pray through the minutes that seemed to haul themselves onwards through time as if anvils were strapped to their feet . |
| 23 | Our adversary lets us out from time to time , to visit other houses , but we rarely enter with power and authority into the heart of the city . |