Sentence examples for it occasionally takes from inspiring English sources

It occasionally takes its toll – a few days after we meet, he's hospitalised with pneumonia and forced to cancel several Las Vegas shows – but as he points out, it's nothing compared with his workload in the early 70s, when he toured the US constantly, and released seven albums in five years: 1973's 31m-selling double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was recorded in 17 days.

When it (occasionally) takes weapons from Hizbullah, it is accused of defending the Israeli occupation; when it tries to shield civilians from the fighting, it is accused of protecting terrorists.

Probably the eels, sculpins, and other fish taken by the cormorant make the species beneficial rather than harmful to the salmon, and probably more than compensate for the few valuable fish that it occasionally takes.

Over the last 15 years, Hydronic Lift halved its work force, and more recently it occasionally took advantage of a government-endorsed temporary layoff program to scale workers back to a four-day week.

But throughout those early years the firm remained hungry for work, so much so that it occasionally took on jobs that other architects might have questioned - for instance, feasibility studies for "shoehorning" buildings over landmarks, such as the Metropolitan Club, at 60th Street and Fifth Avenue, and the former Olivetti Building, at 500 Park Avenue.

The biggest issue I noticed was a lack of sensitivity on some of the devices while I poked and prodded at their screens: it occasionally took multiple attempts to successfully bring up the App Launcher or return to the home screen.

And, in the real world, it is the social contract, with its institutions and procedures, its modes of deliberation, delegation, and mediation, and, in particular, its votes, that stands behind the noble invention of a "people" and accounts for the fact that those who comprise it occasionally take a break from tearing each other limb from limb.

You could pick it out in a second from the Icelandic chatter: the dusky timbre, deep in the mezzo-soprano range; the tremor in it, which occasionally takes on the roughness of a pubescent boy's voice; the way it slices through the sonic haze, as if somehow a few extra frequencies in a given range were being twanged to life and sent into action.

3. I occasionally took on freelance work.

Under her leadership, the FDIC has made sure that the insured banks, which it supervises and occasionally takes over, act to prevent foreclosures rather than using government handouts to finance new bank mergers.

There can be irregularities, of course, such as the odd spin axis of Uranus, which for as-yet-unexplained reasons is nearly tilted on its side, and Pluto's odd orbit, which occasionally takes it inside the path of Neptune.