Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The soil should be kept moist , but never saturated , by sprinkling it gently with water from time to time . |
| 2 | He pushed the book across and pointed out the swirling fronds of ‘ Seaweed ’ and the stiffly formal ‘ Sweet Pea ’ , while Iris looked on , nodding and chipping in with observations from time to time . |
| 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 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 6 | We analysed these data ourselves , and found that many subject departments sent individuals or small groups to the library in connection with subject or project work , while others seem to have brought whole classes down from time to time . |
| 7 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 8 | Not a pleasant task but the men get a bit browned-off sitting on their hunkers here , doing precious little but dig , and insecure grumbles to their wives and girl friends creep in from time to time . |
| 9 | The hotel bookshop went on displaying Archer and Sheldon and Forsyth , happily oblivious to the world-famous authors who flitted in from time to time to paw the paperbacks . |
| 10 | What F writes need be no more than barely ‘ understandable ’ , provided that he throws in from time to time some ‘ historical terminology ’ , which he need not necessarily understand , nor use appropriately . |
| 11 | I might not always be there exactly when you want me , but I 'll check in from time to time . |
| 12 | ‘ But she would come in from time to time to inspect the ingredients and make sure everything was fresh , nothing frozen , dried or packeted , especially not the orange juice for breakfast , which had to be freshly squeezed from three kilos of oranges . |
| 13 | Even here , I expect his mother comes in from time to time and has a good old poke round . ’ |
| 14 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 15 | It seemed to me that the theatre I wanted to work in from time to time was the British theatre , so I have never contemplated living in America . |
| 16 | Oh I 'll be popping in from time to time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Two-thirds of the BBC 's audience did so from time to time and a quarter of these were regular listeners . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | These people and their children differ from the so-called mixed race children only in terms of time , and are only a few generations removed from the point at which the mixture occurred . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We had organized a helicopter to get him down to London in time . |
| 28 | I make it down to Þingeyri in time to hear the good news that the plane has gone . |
| 29 | And now I sha n't need you again this evening , so apart from looking in on Anna from time to time , you may do just as you please . ’ |
| 30 | It also has a good reputation for retaining its good appearance over along period of time . |