Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had parted in a friendly enough way , promising to see each other from time to time , but Jenna very much doubted if it would ever happen . |
| 2 | Throughout the social and satiric age of Augustan reason , poets continued to walk that way from time to time , indulging their anti-rational and unsociable propensities for solitude , melancholy , and intense emotion . |
| 3 | Certainly , it is common to lose all track of time in labour ; the intensity of the last stages seem to take place in another dimension . |
| 4 | We are doing everything we can to keep that period of time to a minimum . |
| 5 | Exercise 11.4 has been set to demonstrate this point with time series . |
| 6 | He 's a good ol' boy from Alabama who is unable to go any length of time without touching a golf club . |
| 7 | ‘ It does n't matter who you are , it has to take that period of time . |
| 8 | Vernon admitted that the post had its attractions : the Lord Chamberlain had the best lodgings at court , could recommend his friends for offices , and was continually in attendance on the Queen ‘ to take any advantage of time and occasion ’ for the presentation of suits . |
| 9 | The Hopi did not seem to need any sense of time as a dimension . |
| 10 | Maintain or improve condition of muscles , bones and ligaments : Have you ever had to spend any length of time flat on your back in bed — perhaps due to illness or an accident ? |
| 11 | The prosecution are safer trying to show some interval of time between forming the intent to use the article to injure and the actual use . |
| 12 | The will contained a direction for the trustees , out of the net income of the proportionate share of the estate held in trust for any child , to make such provision from time to time as they in their uncontrolled discretion might think necessary or advisable for the suitable maintenance and education of such a child . |
| 13 | The contractor 's provision of float within the programme is there to cover items that are at the contractor 's own risk and in general should not be used to abate any extension of time to which the contractor may be entitled . |