Example sentences of "time to time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time they shed meteorites and the odd one will make a small , exotic dent on the surface of pop . |
| 2 | For these reasons — their pattern of settlement , the ease , low cost and low risk of meeting obligations — Zuwaya were able to still think of themselves as nomads : they were wrong , but from time to time they could and did regard some of their social arrangements as unchanging , inert . |
| 3 | From time to time they lose patience and sweep aside decadent governments . |
| 4 | From time to time they would engage in what read like mannered conversations on whether they were acting as Cabinet ministers or as purely departmental ministers . |
| 5 | The fire had formed a bed of glowing ash , a core on which from time to time they threw a branch . |
| 6 | Kalchu and Chola were both at home and from time to time they looked down , both repelled and fascinated . |
| 7 | From time to time they surface to make regulation a topic of political debate . |
| 8 | Judges have a lively perception of public opinion on sentences ; from time to time they receive letters from disgruntled members of the public , and they read criticism of their decisions in the newspapers . |
| 9 | The goal of social independence , of helping people to ‘ look after themselves ’ , is a very important one , but many individuals with long-term mental disorder may also need specific medical and psychological treatment to lessen the burden of symptoms ; from time to time they may also need extra supervision , care and shelter . |
| 10 | ‘ I just play for relaxation nowadays , but I know two of the guys who play here regularly and from time to time they invite me to join them . ’ |
| 11 | From time to time we visited the old barrio chino , the red-light district , which formed a kind of everyman 's land at the heart of the bell-haunted , church-loaded city . |
| 12 | But I went along with him , and from time to time we shared a toothbrush , either his or mine . |
| 13 | From time to time we emerge from the factory to buy raw materials at Safeway or Mothercare , and in the end my daily discipline only echoes the great Baconian System when I purchase a frozen chicken . |
| 14 | From time to time we offer other fruit pies such as cherry , apricot , blueberry , etc . |
| 15 | From time to time we still had meat , for cattle still had to be slaughtered and there was little transport , because of the fuel shortage , to carry them to the wholesale market . |
| 16 | From time to time we have copies of WWF News and other member communications returned to us because people have moved house and forgotten to inform us of their new address . |
| 17 | We get down in the darkness and from time to time we pull the wire . |
| 18 | From time to time she had to pull him up . |
| 19 | jean had her arm round Donald 's waist now and from time to time she skipped , roused by the fighting spirits of the menfolk . |
| 20 | From time to time she stopped to laugh . |
| 21 | From time to time she glanced a little apprehensively at the numbered board with its blank bulbs . |
| 22 | From time to time she dipped her fingertips into a glass jar and withdrew them laden with cream which she smoothed into her face and neck in lazy strokes . |
| 23 | From time to time she glanced suspiciously around as if afraid someone might try to grab it off her . |
| 24 | From time to time she would turn over irritably , and try to compel herself to sleep . |
| 25 | Miss Young was Ian 's teacher , not mine , but from time to time she used to read to our class ; and I was always captivated by her stories . |
| 26 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 27 | From time to time she crossed the room , soaked a flannel in the tepid water of a basin , and pressed it gently against the Collector 's swollen face . |
| 28 | By the end of a week she was little more than a living skeleton : her hand lay all day long in Jennifer 's , and from time to time she would open her eyes , staring pathetically up , with a mute pleading in her expression that no words of comfort or whispered prayers could dispel . |
| 29 | He heard the tin bracelets jangling on her wrists and from time to time she bent her head close over her fists as though blowing on reluctant embers ; but it was some time before he realized that he , too , was naked , and that the hands of the Moi girl were stroking and chafing his own body . |
| 30 | From time to time she would glance back into the room , her eyes coming to rest on the casually seated figure of Tsu Ma . |