Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 2 | He was charming , and found women desirable , so inevitably he weakened from time to time . |
| 3 | He woke from time to time and on each occasion drank a little more . |
| 4 | He was employed on the reconstruction of the bishop of Winchester 's palace at Wolvesey , and he acted from time to time as architect as well as builder . |
| 5 | Another expression of this psychic force is found in the cynicism and bitterness he displayed from time to time when he grumbles about the dark , the flies and the cold ; but other references are very much stronger , e.g. ‘ The Cuckold 's Song ’ etc ) . |
| 6 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 7 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 8 | I made it a rule — which , it is true , he broke from time to time when he had something particularly pressing or intimate to convey — that he should not drop into French while we were together . |
| 9 | No matter how paranoid he felt from time to time about the DIA , Coleman could not conceive that Control would have told him to get hold of a legitimate Thomas Leavy passport for Operation Shakespeare knowing in advance that it would blow the mission and lead to his arrest . |
| 10 | He sat on a chair facing the desk and did not look at Mr Rose , though he did from time to time tilt his head to measure the angled slices of building and reflected light arranged by the blind . |
| 11 | He wondered from time to time what sort of a life she led in that remote cottage with her writer friend , how far it had satisfied her . |