Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] often [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locke 's contemporaries often criticized his continual talk of ‘ ideas ’ , for which he apologized . |
| 2 | And , even if it were just an American issue , how can one claim to represent American art properly in the period when women 's work often led the way without including some of the artists I 've mentioned . |
| 3 | However , the farmer 's wife often had to deal on her own with callers and only 15% felt able to cope . |
| 4 | Nigel 's wife often appeared to haunt him after that . |
| 5 | Many were imprisoned and most suffered huge fines or the seizure of their lands ; the king 's friends often exploited the vulnerability of the Contrariants in order to plunder and pillage with virtual immunity to their own profit . |
| 6 | The sub-title of Marx 's works often included the word ‘ critique ’ , reflecting his constant debate with other theorists — both ‘ bourgeois ’ economists , historians and philosophers , and fellow socialists . |
| 7 | When I lived in Dublin at the end of the Second World War , one of my friends was an obsessive film buff whose dramatic recall , frame by frame , of scenes such as the Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin or the final chase in Fritz Lang 's M often hypnotized even the drunks in the bars we frequented . |
| 8 | Finally , of course , the regime 's agents often added their own unctuous gloss to the popular mood they were reporting , anxious , in the light of the conspiracy against the Führer , to put their own unswerving loyalty beyond question . |
| 9 | Charles 's court-scholars often encouraged him to find inspiration and confidence in the story of David . |