every so often

• “While I was inside giving my speech, I learned later, a citizen reported to the police that a suspicious-acting man had been repeatedly circling the building and stopping every so often to ask people which door I was going to use after the banquet.”

  Simon & Schuster: An American Life

• “Along the side there were air-holes and cracks, and every so often squares had been cut in the ice, where the people of the neighborhood came to fish for eels.”

  A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic

• “There are still thousands upon thousands of secrets moldering in dusty files in ministries and war departments, and every so often someone pro - duces "the best-kept secret of the war.”

  The HurricaneStory

• “The gathering was called the Global Word Congress, and the air was so thin at that altitude that you had to stop every so often to catch your breath, and it changed the way you thought after a while.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE ANTHOLOGIST

• “Presently there came the familiar cry of the bin-man, who walked round every so often to ladle the hops out into ten-bushel pokes.”

  Mrs. Miniver

• “County, you didn't go to until around one-thirty or two, but you could hear certain ministers from Montgomery, and every so often Dr. King would be preaching from his church, the Dexter Avenue Church.”

  Oral History Interview with John Lewis, November 20, 1973. Interview A-0073. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “That cheered me up, for if he didn't advance the Imps would have nothing to shoot at, and all might blow over; but it was still gruelling work waiting for Parkes; I beguiled the time trying to think of fatal errands on which I might despatch Trooper Nolan, who was sitting aside, puffing his pipe, his bright little eyes sliding every so often in my direction.”

  Flashman and the Dragon

• “Smoking, every so often looking at the San Bartolomeo to see I'd not emerged.”

  The Vatican Rip

• “He stopped every so often to dab iodine on wet, pink navels, massage the teats of a tight-bagged cow with lanolin, or doctor a calf for scours.”

  Simon & Schuster: Plain Language

• “This was an awkward arrangement for me, because though I felt I belonged to neither group, my Mexican-ness would peek out every so often from under the shadow of my stepfather’s last name when I rolled a vowel too long in my mouth, or grew coarse tufts of premature facial hair.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Madonnas of Echo Park

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