Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've known well in between but in between times like Christmas time and |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lighting seemed to be at one basic level regardless of time of day or night though was subtly achieved in the final scene . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time , but the main lines remained fairly stable . |
| 6 | Yet , having done this , it should pay particular attention to the emotions rather than to the ‘ facts ’ , or the rationalizations and justifications we all tend to use in order to shroud our feelings , especially in times of stress . |
| 7 | Now I 've used it elsewhere in the garden and I 've never really had any problem with it except it is inclined to make the water very alkaline because the chippings that are quite often used on a flat roof and they 've got a very high P H and therefore you 've got to be aware that the water that comes off is not likely to be soft it 's more likely to be fair fairly hard but for reasonably tough plants I do n't think I would waste it , especially in times of water shortage . |
| 8 | She was successful , but it was not always enough to be in difficulties to get the union committee 's approval , especially in times of unemployment . |
| 9 | When a community language teacher makes her or himself available to parents , especially in times of crisis , greater support and recognition can be gained , and the traditional mistrust of secondary schools on the part of parents , particularly working class parents can be eroded . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I might not always be there exactly when you want me , but I 'll check in from time to time . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Even here , I expect his mother comes in from time to time and has a good old poke round . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Oh I 'll be popping in from time to time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Two-thirds of the BBC 's audience did so from time to time and a quarter of these were regular listeners . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Indeed , black workers had originally been brought in in times of labour shortage and ended up doing the kinds of ‘ dead end ’ jobs which allowed white workers to set their sights higher — to a great extent they are still found in these same jobs . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |