Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether in London , Abu Dhabi or Al Ain , in a hotel or in the desert I searched for times of quiet as a starving man searches for food . |
| 2 | Two or three hours on the journey , but on , having said that you got in time for the train fare , the and the |
| 3 | Karen brushed them off with talk of a ‘ little twinge ’ that she got from time to time and rose briskly to clear the table . |
| 4 | Jessica followed closely , watching the stop-lights and the curly hair she caught from time to time around the head restraint on his front seat . |
| 5 | ‘ How frightful , ’ she murmured from time to time , as Mrs. Mounce catalogued another misfortune , another misunderstanding . |
| 6 | He had been brought up to believe that policemen were havens of security , to whom you turned in times of trouble . |
| 7 | She returned in time for breakfast . |
| 8 | By earning a pittance as a contributor to learned periodicals , she managed from time to time to share rooms in London with friends . |
| 9 | Her legs began to hurt and she considered from time to time the possibility of varicose veins . |
| 10 | Here at Practical PC , we 've had AUTOEXEC.BATs full of REMmed lines — alternative command lines that needed editing to make changes in the various programs and drivers we used from time to time . |
| 11 | we stopped from time to time |
| 12 | We arrived on time at the factory , which was easily recognisable by the huge Supersight logo on the front of the building — one of those light industrial units , painted in bright primary colours , which litter the landscape of Britain — bright , satanic mills , I suppose you could call them . |
| 13 | We flirted from time to time with good-looking or not-so-good-looking men in the company . |
| 14 | In addition , they suffered from time to time through gaps in chairmanship because ministers had failed to appoint in time . |
| 15 | Inevitably they settled in time into a more leisurely role . |
| 16 | They swayed in time to the music , and then Calder cleared his throat . |
| 17 | Of course they died from time to time , so there was a light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 18 | If they did look out the sentries had orders to fire on them , which they did from time to time although no one was ever injured . |
| 19 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 20 | He was charming , and found women desirable , so inevitably he weakened from time to time . |
| 21 | He woke from time to time and on each occasion drank a little more . |
| 22 | He arrived on time for his appointment and he was not kept waiting ; the receptionist introduced him at once . |
| 23 | He was employed on the reconstruction of the bishop of Winchester 's palace at Wolvesey , and he acted from time to time as architect as well as builder . |
| 24 | Another expression of this psychic force is found in the cynicism and bitterness he displayed from time to time when he grumbles about the dark , the flies and the cold ; but other references are very much stronger , e.g. ‘ The Cuckold 's Song ’ etc ) . |
| 25 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 26 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 27 | A prince 's entourage provided his closest friends , his most trusted servants , the knights on whom he relied in time of crisis . |
| 28 | Oh it varied from time to time . |
| 29 | I made it a rule — which , it is true , he broke from time to time when he had something particularly pressing or intimate to convey — that he should not drop into French while we were together . |
| 30 | Although not a Christian , Plotinus was in some respects a forerunner of St Augustine , particularly because he thought of time in psychological terms . |