Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] time to " in BNC.
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1 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
2 | Commercial users of grain such as brewers of beer or vinegar or producers of starch were also picked out from time to time . |
3 | Nevertheless , they were able to continue the art classes ( to Leonard 's chagrin , a Saturday morning event ) alongside needlework and other crafts , which were exhibited locally from time to time . |
4 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
5 | Wallace saw the great northern continents of Eurasia and North America as the chief focus of progressive evolution from which higher types had radiated out from time to time . |
6 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
7 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
8 | It may have been the combination of the early hour and a squeamish stomach , but during the whole of our short stay on the island I had a most peculiar feeling of being transported back through time to another age . |
9 | A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ . |
10 | My hon. Friend , who has been courteous and kind in meeting delegations led by me and by other hon. Members to discuss the problem , has pointed out from time to time that the scheme is the responsibility of the county council . |
11 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
12 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
13 | Hoops used to be brought out from time to time , to become a craze , then be forgotten again . |
14 | It was as if Jack had stepped back in time to the scene of an earlier age . |
15 | Professional verdict : It looks like they 've gone back in time to the Fifties — not very practical |
16 | They remember that the guardians of the tree run back through time to the one who only sang and never spoke , who used to keep vigil by the tree , where the sorceress Sycorax ( but they have forgotten her name ) lies deep with her grave goods . |
17 | Other places were also hit savagely from time to time , but it is often difficult to tell from the registers which particular disease was responsible for an unusually high number of deaths . |
18 | We hope the branches and members w w will believe those reports because they will be the truth , and not some of the more highly coloured statements which I 'm sure will be put around from time to time . |
19 | I get chatted up from time to time , though if you have a small child — ’ she glanced through the mirror at Thomas ‘ — not too many men want to become involved . |
20 | In the thirteenth century , itinerant royal justices were sent out from time to time with a list of enquiries to put to local communities . |
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 | The last secondary modern school in Banbury , nearly twenty years after the Act , had been established just in time to be reorganized . |
23 | Various members of his family have resided there from time to time . |
24 | Exhibitions are held there from time to time and there is an art and craft gallery in the old vicarage opposite the church . |