Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed . |
| 3 | Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow . |
| 4 | To a very large extent this is what Ashton does in A Month in the Country where the non-dancers speak out from time to time in explicit gestures . |
| 5 | At breakfast she occasionally annoyed us by reeling off lists of groceries we were all to pick up during the day and bring home in time for dinner . |
| 6 | I just pop up from time to time to see if Bob 's all right . ’ |
| 7 | Stand back from time to time and take a look at the big picture . |
| 8 | These ‘ fireside ’ monologues emerge from an assortment of inter-related characters and jump back through time to poor white Adam , ( Nature 's mistake ) . |
| 9 | Thus , negotiations will include representations and " other dealings " which extend back in time to when the debtor or hirer reads an advertisement inserted by the negotiator . |
| 10 | In the examination itself , divide up the time on the basis of how the marks are likely to be distributed ; if you run out of time for your first answer , quickly sketch a conclusion and move on to the next question , so that you have provided at least a general indication of work in all the questions . |
| 11 | Thank you The the the good news for you the good news for you is that if we erm run out of time on Tuesday morning , we can have the hall all night , Tuesday night . |
| 12 | The University 's Alumni Office can provide help and advice to groups , whether they consist of a few friends who meet informally from time to time , a group from a particular department or year who wish to arrange a special reunion , or a more established society like the ones described on these pages . |
| 13 | Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time . |
| 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 | But I think er with a big family like mother had got , she used to like her divi day erm for erm you know , well say save up , well it used to come round about May and you 'd think well just , you know just in time for the summer shoes or something you know . |
| 16 | You did very well to have gone birthday and get home in time for , whatever time it was you did |
| 17 | It is never a good idea to sit for long periods but , if this is essential , get up from time to time in order to move the body . |
| 18 | You do n't give a damn about whether we get back in time for the meeting . ’ |
| 19 | I always make sure I get back in time for tea . ’ |
| 20 | There are many other more common causes of aortic incompetence , including rheumatic fever , but cases of syphilitic aortic-valve disease still turn up from time to time in this country , albeit rarely . |
| 21 | They turn up from time to time . ’ |
| 22 | Start off with time in hand so that you can read notices and indicators in a calm state of mind ; buy your ticket in advance ; know exactly when you have to change and the time of the connections . |
| 23 | They do not live as a unit , together , but as two separate people whose lives converge briefly from time to time . |
| 24 | James Menzies had locked up his warehouse for the day and come over in time to be included in the lengthening list . |