Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] often [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Worthington often felt it would have been an unendurable sorrow to her parents if they had lived to witness the extent of the deterioration . |
| 2 | Nobody thought it odd that Mother Francis often went up the path past the blackberries to read her Office up by the cottage . |
| 3 | Mother Francis often sat there herself when she came up to tidy the place . |
| 4 | The graceful Dynevor type grows sideways and then curves forwards and upwards ; it is also seen in the Cadzow , possibly because Dynevor bulls often ran with Cadzow cows in recent years . |
| 5 | The two men maintained contact and Frank Francis-Francis often visited Henley and provided a seat for the Artisans which was given , in turn , to the Club in 1971 . |
| 6 | Greta Ross often came to the beach to swim , but Mr Ross never came . |
| 7 | In Colombo policemen often took advantage of municipal health , safety and traffic regulations in order to ‘ tax ’ carters , rickshaw drivers and others who made their living on the streets of the capital , and in the twentieth century bus drivers regularly bribed the police . |
| 8 | Countess Spencer often stayed at Park House while Ruth , Lady Fermoy taught the children card games . |
| 9 | ‘ Sir Vivien often played a round before breakfast , ’ said Major Ernest ‘ Tiger ’ Bagshot , 43 , Secretary of Royal Wrigglesworth , ‘ But my suspicions were aroused when his black labrador , Bonzo , appeared at the clubhouse at approximately ten o'clock . |
| 10 | Mr Reynolds often looked tired and anxious during the days preceding his operation and it was important that the ward nurses gave him opportunities to ask questions and express his fears and also ensured that he had time to rest . |
| 11 | ‘ Uncle Albert often came to borrow various garden tools , perhaps he 's got it . |
| 12 | The ubiquitous billboard portraits of President Saddam often showed him in a green uniform . |
| 13 | Mrs Redmond often gave her food from the parcels she received from her sister in America and the parcels sent by Gene 's family , and she produced a tinned ham and a tin of peaches for the meal . |
| 14 | Although he was one of her most enthusiastic supporters , Mrs Thatcher often found he was more of a liability than an asset . |
| 15 | The shop now caters for the mainstream market , but it was built upon bringing in exclusive trainers from Germany in the early Eighties , trainers that had nothing to do with America , but a lot to do with the nomad Scousers , and Wade Smith often supplemented his stock by buying from Liverpool ‘ entrepreneurs ’ with time on their hands to travel to Deutschland and acquire , by various methods , the much sought after , exclusive Adidas Trim-Trab . |
| 16 | Claudia Cohn-Casson often had dinner here when she was in Nairobi . |
| 17 | Clive Allen , Mark Robson and wide man Kevin Keen often had the Grimsby defence in trouble , though Paul Butcher was a tower of strength in the back four . |
| 18 | The Mesara tombs often had annexes as overspill ossuaries and cult rooms built onto them . |
| 19 | He did n't throw his head back like Peggy Pine did when she laughed , or giggle into his fist like Paccy Moore ; he did n't make big gestures like Mario in the fish and chip shop , or even get wheezing and coughing fits like Dessie Burns often did . |
| 20 | Such humour even stretched to the envelopes , and those addressed to friends such as Clive Bell often had on them verse instructions to the postman . |
| 21 | Lady Thatcher often accused her male colleagues of lacking guts … today she met her match in the Lady from Cheltenham . |
| 22 | Unlike , say , Lyndon Johnson , there was no chance of Reagan overwhelming or brow-beating legislators into submission ; nor was he likely to intimidate them as Jimmy Carter often did by dazzling but discomfiting displays of his mastery of the detail of policy-making . |
| 23 | John McLaughlin often felt that guitar controllers lacked spontaneous reaction to attack , something that Lampi does n't have to worry about ( though McLaughlin 's new Photon system seems to work quite well over a range of sounds ) . |