Example sentences of "i [verb] often [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but thing is I mean , you know , there 's a lot of kids out there , I mean I 've know with , sort of , Lee 's friend you know , okay , with us I mean with Lee o okay we do n't I 've often said to him , why do n't you get a Saturday job ? |
| 2 | I 'd often thought of doing a TV commercial . |
| 3 | Then I bit into the first slice of bread ; home made , plastered thickly with farm butter and topped by a lavish layer of heather honey from the long row of hives I had often seen on the edge of the moor above . |
| 4 | I had often marvelled at it , but it made the present disaster all the more unbearable . |
| 5 | Something wondering and recapitulatory in his tone brought to mind the way I had often spoken of Jess in her absence : odd , I thought , the way men tended to prize their partners more highly when they were elsewhere ; almost as though the idea of relationship was more satisfactory than its practice . |
| 6 | I 've often felt like this since , mostly on occasions connected with Jenny . |
| 7 | I 've got out of the way of , I 've often said to Dinda , you know , I would n't mind going back to an open fire in the winter . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've often prayed for death , Ellen . |
| 9 | Mind , there was one night that I 've often thought about . |
| 10 | But I 've often thought about buying a mine detector or what ever you call it , and , but you see there was an old churchyard down here too . |
| 11 | A door leads to them , and I 've often thought about taking the door off . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've often thought of you . |
| 13 | they 're they are very useful , I 've often thought of having some made |
| 14 | I 've often wondered about the origin of Evan 's encyclopaedic knowledge on this topic . |
| 15 | And the people used to sharpen it to a point , why the Slippery Elm I do n't know , I 've often wondered about it really , but his person I 'm telling you about she she was delivered of a good healthy boy and everything was alright . |
| 16 | I 've often wondered about the other two's gardens it , but you can see now ca n't you ? |
| 17 | Erm , I have children of my own , that I had naturally and I said yes , but with reservation because erm I I 've often wondered in the case of a handicapped baby er , that was born to a surrogate mother and the surrogate mother wanted to keep it simply because it was handicapped , or if she knew she was gon na have a handicapped baby the amniocentesis test and if she wanted to abort the baby but the mother-in-waiting did n't who would decide ? |
| 18 | I mean , I 've often spoken to you about how I hated the loneliness of my childhood — how warm and rich I found your family life . |
| 19 | I 've often read about you in the papers , and there were a couple of reports about you having killed people and — ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've often walked past that picter . |
| 21 | I have often referred to my own fear when I was first required to make a horse jump a fence . |
| 22 | I have often said to the orchestra , especially to the younger players , ‘ Do your best , and love what you are doing , because you are allowed to do this thing . ’ |
| 23 | As I have often said in these ‘ Notes ’ , Athletico is a forward-looking club and so thoughts must now turn to next season . |
| 24 | I have often succumbed to the graceful , bronzed beauty of Michael Deere and Terence Wade 's limbs as they power into action and imagine not John Motson or Alan Hansen commentating on another blistering attack , but David Attenborough in mildly hushed tones , comparing our boys with leaping gazelles or sprightly cheetahs . |
| 25 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 26 | … as I have often noted in this diary , Harold [ Wilson ] is extraordinarily sensitive on the issue of Party pledges , and when I approached him privately he said , ‘ This is a party pledge which has to be fulfilled ’ . |
| 27 | This is a vanity I have often noted in writers ; the more eminent the writer , the more pronounced this vanity is likely to be . |
| 28 | The cooperation of the Rotel has bee such that I have often gone into the ‘ play it again ’ mode on my regular machine because credibility was being strained . |
| 29 | BELVILLE : I have often observed in married folks that the lady soon grows careless in her dress , which to me shows a slight to her husband that she had not to her lover . |
| 30 | ‘ The first man they — let into the room — well , I have often wondered about him . |