Example sentences of "[conj] he often [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne saw that he often walked and talked with other girls . |
| 2 | His reply was that he often did but not usually soon enough . ) |
| 3 | In an obituary , Seamus Heaney wrote , ‘ There was about him a delicate wildness , and he often thought that the hare , about which he had gathered so many entrancing stories , was his proper , total animal . |
| 4 | This was his father 's mistress , and he often wondered if his mother knew as well . |
| 5 | But he often said that he owed as much to Oscar Browning [ q.v. ] , who had to get his Baptist parents ' permission to take him to the theatre . |
| 6 | Mr McWhirter had summoned a taxi to take him home , as he often did when afflicted with the snap and bite of chilblain pains . |