Example sentences of "[vb past] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a beauty and he 'd often wanted to steal a kiss , but had had enough sense not to try . |
| 2 | In the train , in the tunnel , he asked her things he 'd often wanted to ask , but never dared . |
| 3 | He 'd often asked himself the same question . |
| 4 | Now I 'd often pushed my nose against the window and thought what a classy joint it looked but as someone who would rather spend £50 on a coat than a meal , the prices had come between us . |
| 5 | She sighed heavily , as if she 'd often met this concrete wall of misconception , and she leaned forward and looked at him intensely . |
| 6 | He 'd often despised older men for hasty , inept dying operations . |
| 7 | With his father and his mother , he 'd often walked along the cliffs , by the golf-course . |
| 8 | I 'd often watched her carrying them from the pile outside , spreading them out , fluffing them up . |
| 9 | We 'd often talked about it and I 'd always said , No , I would never do anything like that until I got married . |
| 10 | She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last . |
| 11 | I 'd often wondered what I 'd do in such a position , but it was simple . |
| 12 | She 'd often wondered about the Holy Ghost , and now wondered further if Mr Dickens 's stories had any connections with Him . |
| 13 | Well now I 'd often wondered what you got up to when I left you here . ’ |
| 14 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 15 | Indeed , we 'd often hooted at a poster of a diminutive Den , aged six , which bore the words : ‘ He 's six , he sings , he syncopates . ’ |
| 16 | He knew that at night , alone in his room , he should be crying , but no tears came ; that in itself was strange , for he 'd often cried about small things , such as seeing a fox with its leg in a trap , still alive , its eyes begging for release . |
| 17 | I 'd often thought of doing a TV commercial . |
| 18 | The expense allowances they received often failed , sometimes by a long way , to cover the costs they had to meet . |
| 19 | Clients who withheld money they owed often achieved satisfaction on their particular bone of contention . |
| 20 | ‘ In the reign of the Most Gracious Sovereign , George III and under the auspices of the Right Hon. William Fettes , Lord Provost of Edinburgh , the Harbour of Leith , though formed at a remote period and as commerce in the course of ages increased often repaired and extended , yet being still narrow and incommodious , Robert Dundas of Melville , Esq. , in absence of the Right Hon. Charles , Earl of Dalkeith , Grand Master of Scotland , laid the foundation stone of these docks in which the numerous vessels arriving from every quarter of the globe might receive ample and secure accommodation on the 14th day of May in the year of our Lord 1801 and of the Aera of Masonry 5801 , John Rennie being Engineer . |
| 21 | The explanation may be that older women who had often completed their families were recruited to the study . |
| 22 | They contained a large middle class , which together with dissatisfied refugees and war workers from the fighting zone in the World War , had often expressed dislike of central intervention , and had even encouraged local autonomy . |
| 23 | Regnier was preparing an exhibition on the theme of Picasso 's crucifixions , for which Bacon had often expressed his profound admiration , and the ‘ Three studies for figures at the base of a Crucifixion ’ will be shown there . |
| 24 | Lorne and I had often visited this particular cave in an attempt to film the Celebes Macaque , a baboon-sized monkey unique to the island , which nested in the giant tree which grew from it , but we had never thought of actually venturing inside . |
| 25 | Fortunately Artemis had often jumped this particular fence with Jenkins , and Buttons sailed over it , which was as well since there was no other way forward . |
| 26 | The local distribution systems , usually based on lines of 66kV , 33kV and 11kV , were also now more rationally planned , with the aim of minimising all local distribution costs without regard to the former local undertaking boundaries which had often borne no relation to the electrical load characteristics of an area . |
| 27 | Keith Parker , manager of Harpers Sports Centre , where Joanna was a fitness consultant , said her boyfriend had often warned her about her personal safety after dark . |
| 28 | In 1986 , Robben played guitar for Miles Davis , whom he had often cited as his greatest influence . |
| 29 | Prohibitions of such appeals in the thirteenth century had often cited for their authority a papal indult of 1231 in which Gregory IX had conceded that the magnates and barons of England should not be summoned in litigation beyond the sea , a privilege subsequently generalized to all the king 's English subjects and soon known as the privilege of England . |
| 30 | His economic populism had a powerful appeal to white working-class and middle-class voters , who had often viewed the Democrats as too ready to promote race-based liberalism at their expense in recent years . |