Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time , but the main lines remained fairly stable . |
| 4 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I might not always be there exactly when you want me , but I 'll check in from time to time . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Even here , I expect his mother comes in from time to time and has a good old poke round . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Oh I 'll be popping in from time to time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Two-thirds of the BBC 's audience did so from time to time and a quarter of these were regular listeners . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It also has a good reputation for retaining its good appearance over along period of time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The first few days in Bavant were fairly quiet as far as the enemy activity was concerned , with a few mortar bombs coming over from time to time . |
| 29 | Peace with France came and food prices fell , but mob rule in Cornwall could still take over from time to time . |
| 30 | So they kill or look for carcasses already available and search them for beetles , spiders , maggots and the like , turning the bodies over from time to time to aid their search . |