Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] time to " 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 | A visit to our unique museum will transport you back in time to wartime Britain . |
| 4 | Bypassed by modern roads , access is along narrow lanes which seem to take one back in time to a more tranquil age . |
| 5 | In a third class of cases we may take the latest condition , the one closest in time to the effect , as the cause . |
| 6 | Do you take them out from time to time and gloat ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They let me out from time to time , ’ he stated seriously . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With full heart , Shelley drove through the silent , magic dawn , looking at him sideways from time to time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | 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 . |