Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] time [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've known well in between but in between times like Christmas time and |
| 2 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 3 | We analysed these data ourselves , and found that many subject departments sent individuals or small groups to the library in connection with subject or project work , while others seem to have brought whole classes down from time to time . |
| 4 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The hotel bookshop went on displaying Archer and Sheldon and Forsyth , happily oblivious to the world-famous authors who flitted in from time to time to paw the paperbacks . |
| 7 | What F writes need be no more than barely ‘ understandable ’ , provided that he throws in from time to time some ‘ historical terminology ’ , which he need not necessarily understand , nor use appropriately . |
| 8 | I might not always be there exactly when you want me , but I 'll check in from time to time . |
| 9 | ‘ But she would come in from time to time to inspect the ingredients and make sure everything was fresh , nothing frozen , dried or packeted , especially not the orange juice for breakfast , which had to be freshly squeezed from three kilos of oranges . |
| 10 | Even here , I expect his mother comes in from time to time and has a good old poke round . ’ |
| 11 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 12 | It seemed to me that the theatre I wanted to work in from time to time was the British theatre , so I have never contemplated living in America . |
| 13 | Oh I 'll be popping in from time to time . |
| 14 | Indeed , black workers had originally been brought in in times of labour shortage and ended up doing the kinds of ‘ dead end ’ jobs which allowed white workers to set their sights higher — to a great extent they are still found in these same jobs . |
| 15 | The first few days in Bavant were fairly quiet as far as the enemy activity was concerned , with a few mortar bombs coming over from time to time . |
| 16 | Peace with France came and food prices fell , but mob rule in Cornwall could still take over from time to time . |
| 17 | So they kill or look for carcasses already available and search them for beetles , spiders , maggots and the like , turning the bodies over from time to time to aid their search . |
| 18 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 21 | But it is liable to dry up in times of drought . |
| 22 | Mr Heseltine has been forced to pull out of a Birmingham conference on global technology today as a contingency to allow the final details to be tied up in time for presentation to the Cabinet . |
| 23 | The Queen , Queen Mother and Princes William , 10 , and Harry , eight , also turned up in time for lunch in the royal shooting lodge . |
| 24 | So they need fresh enemies ordered up from time to time just to keep their chins jutting . |
| 25 | Other sorts of dates do , however , crop up from time to time , namely the regnal year of a particular ruler , such as one of the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt . |
| 26 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |