Example sentences of "often [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often I did n't get to bed until 2 a.m. , so busy was I adding to the stores . |
| 2 | More and more often I do n't see what good comes from my involvement . ’ |
| 3 | often I do n't know |
| 4 | It can be overcome if you recognise that you are tired and getting complacent , but the onset is very gradual and often you do not recognise that anything is wrong . |
| 5 | ‘ Often you do n't realise the sheer range of functions of a good company secretary or administrator until they leave , because they 've been so efficient , ’ said Mr Sheppard . |
| 6 | You will not always get a reply but you may be surprised at how often you do . |
| 7 | Obviously you get more used to it the more often you do it , but it 's still pretty gross . |
| 8 | The strange thing is , quite often you do a lot of courses that you do n't understand at the time , you think it 's a load of rubbish , then you read through them , and just understanding them , they 're really quite important . |
| 9 | I think very often you do need professional help and it is n't possible to do it with family and friends because of the interaction that actually makes it worse . |
| 10 | More often she did n't . |
| 11 | She had always been given the most unpleasant tasks to perform , punished when she rebelled , as often she did , growing up without knowledge of love or hearing the sound of a kind word . |
| 12 | I was wondering how often she did this ministering angel act , and what she got out of it . |
| 13 | The radio had Christmas music which often she did not like , huge oratorios and quasi-religious peculiar plays . |
| 14 | Mornings had indeed developed into quite a happy routine of little errands and duties for Aunt Emily , the hens and the sea ; and if she felt now , as quite often she did , an incomprehensible longing for something wilder and freer and more satisfying than this domestic round , she put it down to needing to be in the open air more and gave herself , next morning , a longer spell on the smooth buff sands of the bay . |
| 15 | Often she did n't get up in the mornings , lying in bed while Emmie got breakfast and made her a cup of tea . |
| 16 | But it 's all done by a helper very often who does n't understand you . |
| 17 | I seemed to be standing outside myself and observing , as often one does on the most dramatic occasions of life . |
| 18 | Often we do n't see them . |
| 19 | Often we do n't even know the brand name of the bass we 're using . |
| 20 | The range of fabrics which can be knitted is amazing , but so often we do not have time to explore them . |
| 21 | The choices we make as to what jobs we do , and how often we do them , are not always in our own best interests . |
| 22 | Erm but I you know I feel that that very often we do n't sell stock |
| 23 | The first is that we do not have a certain general idea , since often we do not have certain specific ideas . |
| 24 | The objection in another part is that in order to confirm an hypothesis that an effect was in fact the effect of a causal circumstance of a certain type , we do need an enumeration of elements , and often we do not have an enumeration . |
| 25 | And very often we do n't . |
| 26 | Often we do n't like them and when we like them least we call them bureaucracies and feel they are malignant , that they interfere with our freedoms , that they are insensitive to our needs . |
| 27 | I d very often we do n't label our emotions verbally . |
| 28 | ‘ When we had a quiz , as often we did in the caravans waiting for filming to begin , Ken always won hands down . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But most often there does n't seem to be any good reason . |
| 30 | They go and lay on the batters and very often they do n't |