Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] often [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents often mentioned their remorse , I was speaking so well before we went to the Russian Orthodox Easter Service . |
| 2 | To us , my father often used the expression , ‘ Do be human ! ’ if we were misbehaving . |
| 3 | My Ma often did n't know where to look when I came out with things about Uncle Geordie and Auntie Julie . |
| 4 | There is no doubt that my masters often lent me dignity and subtlety altogether beyond my needs . |
| 5 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 6 | One thing at least has become clear : their work often sat uneasily beside the dictums of its would-be publicists . |
| 7 | Constanze was to spend a good deal of time over the next two years at Baden , where her husband often visited her . |
| 8 | Nothing enraged the men submitted to the inferno of Verdun more than nauseous effusions like these , and their officers often went to extraordinary lengths to obtain copies of Le Journal de Genève , for a reasonably accurate rapportage of the war . |
| 9 | On Friday evenings her father often went home early , because he and Jane and the infants liked to drive into Kent , where they had friends . |
| 10 | Their suggestions often begged the question as to who would actually implement the necessary corporate revolutions which they recommended . |
| 11 | Her selfishness often distressed her mummy . |
| 12 | It was easy for Draper and White to mock the church fathers for their naiveté on matters of natural philosophy , forgetting that they did have higher concerns — forgetting , too , that their naiveté often reflected the pagan wisdom of their day . |
| 13 | Its procedures often seemed too specific to be worth the candle of locking someone up . |
| 14 | Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace . |
| 15 | But behind his large smiles and large cigars , his eyes often seemed to brim with regret . |
| 16 | Tom kept more erratic hours and the nature of his job often took him out of the office . |
| 17 | This was hardly surprising as his dealers often did n't understand either . |
| 18 | Dressed in tweeds and constantly pipe smoking , his imagination often ran away with him . |
| 19 | My son and his wife often asked us to bring groceries and we bought clothes for Ben . |
| 20 | ‘ 'E 's got 'is feet under a good table , ’ his father often chuckled . |
| 21 | Often as they talked he kept his gaze on her face , looking into her eyes , and as she stood with her hands on the handlebars of her bicycle his hand often covered hers as though by accident . |
| 22 | The son of another Superintendent has told how he and his mother often had to remove the leggings and gaiters from his father when he arrived home soaking wet and utterly stiff and weary after cycling several miles to and from a meeting on a winter night . |
| 23 | Those who knew of his predilections often wondered why he had not become a botanist , an entomologist , a biologist . |
| 24 | His brother often slept in and it was just a bit more noticeable this morning . |
| 25 | Our feet often became too sore and blistered to be put into shoes , so we walked home in our stockinged feet . |
| 26 | No doubt your gran often gave your mum the benefit of her advice but it probably never occurred to her , as it has n't occurred to you , that your mother longs for love , company and sex . |