Example sentences of "we often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when we ask children to write , we often ask them to work in an atmosphere where all sorts of noises compete for attention . |
| 2 | It is in the nature of the work that we often ask children to make difficult decisions in drama ; if the class are finding the process difficult it is well worth reflecting publicly on that : " I ca n't imagine anyone would find a decision like this easy . " |
| 3 | We often ask the client would you like this bound ? and they say oh , in our case , they normally say a letter will be fine . |
| 4 | And although we might challenge their right to run our lives we often let them run our language without a murmur . |
| 5 | ‘ There is the ‘ St. Andrew ’ , ' he said , ‘ a cog we often use to protect our ships from English pirates . ’ |
| 6 | On the other hand we do quite frequently mutter to ourselves as we try to deduce something logically — or even if we do n't make a sound we often use words in our head when trying to work out a complex problem . |
| 7 | Yet he made the distinction invalid by admitting that ‘ in the work of the writer who has serious pretensions we often gain a new image of the world , an insight into human character ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's the classic green and reds with a simple check that prove the most popular and we often recolour tartans in various forms . |
| 9 | We often said they loaded the gun in the afternoon and took a long lanyard into a dugout some distance away and fired their gun once and never emerged to reload . |
| 10 | ( We often sang in St Mary 's , Ipswich , my bass a good foil to Benjamin 's tenor . |
| 11 | Chang lived just a couple of doors along from me at Backyards , sharing a house with Barton Lynch , so we often ran into each other on the early morning surf check . |
| 12 | We often make two assumptions about complex societies : |
| 13 | We often make a careful list which we check off as we do each job . |
| 14 | We often make a careful list which we check off as we finish each item . |
| 15 | Also we often know of drugs which will reverse some of the changes ; drugs which will steady an irregular heartbeat , drugs which will lower a high blood pressure , and so on . |
| 16 | For example , with music of the Mozart period we often know what is coming next , even on the first hearing of a work . |
| 17 | In reality , however , we often take each other , and God , for granted , and fail to see how our lives could really be . |
| 18 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 19 | Rather than being long-standing relationships which have been strong enough to stand ‘ the test of time ’ , as we often assume , they are little more than empty shells which are no longer of any significant mutual support or value . |
| 20 | We often assume that those above us know much more than they do . |
| 21 | When we set out to do something new we often assume that the baseline will continue as it always has done . |
| 22 | Although we often mounted exercises with our local port investigation units with varying degrees of success , our access to reliable information was limited . |
| 23 | The question : ‘ Am I my brother 's keeper ? ’ is one that we often hear quoted . |
| 24 | We often hear people say ‘ I ca n't express how I felt ’ or ‘ Words are inadequate . ’ |
| 25 | In this recording the orchestra is in the foreground most of the time ; and during this time we often hear the singers as though looking at them on stage through inverter opera glasses , where they are distinct but tiny . |
| 26 | We often hear of people who keep the Oscar , Astronotus ocellatus , as a pet as this cichlid is really a big softie when kept on its own . |
| 27 | Their enclosure is near by , at the back of our cages , and though it is impossible to see them we often hear them . ’ |
| 28 | Peirithous is surely meant to look sad , and we often hear of sadness in the faces of Polygnotos 's characters . |
| 29 | We often hear their sad lament |
| 30 | We often hear talk of trains . |