Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] time [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Lighting seemed to be at one basic level regardless of time of day or night though was subtly achieved in the final scene . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Two-thirds of the BBC 's audience did so from time to time and a quarter of these were regular listeners . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Television arrived here only in time for Christmas 1986 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If she were still in Britain , it would be too late for her to say much in time for morning editions . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The French applied the tourniquet just in time to stagger to a winning start . |
| 20 | We should be at the château just in time for breakfast . ’ |
| 21 | And the new arrivals , just in time for Easter . |
| 22 | ‘ Well now , and just in time for tea , ’ he beamed as a second and third bomb fell sickeningly nearer . |
| 23 | Oh , by the way , the game should go on sale just in time for Chrimble … |
| 24 | I was the last to arrive , and I was only just in time for dinner . |
| 25 | Out in December , just in time for Christmas |
| 26 | The GenTech labs could n't do anything about the common cold and no government had been able to develop a workable public transport system , but when it came to deathware , why , there were wonderful new toys on the market every fall , just in time for Christmas . |
| 27 | Definitely in a humorous vein and just in time for Christmas is Banger and Pranger in Snowman 's Land by Graham Hey and Brian Robinson . |
| 28 | It took until December 16 for Jack to reach home , just in time for Christmas with his family in Manchester , his last as it turned out . |
| 29 | This week it 's potatoes , next it 's carrots … and then , just in time for Christmas , turkey . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may adjourn any meeting held by virtue of subsection ( 1 ) above from time to time during the period of one month next following the first day of such meeting , but no longer . |