Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pers pn] often " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were attractive-looking animals and they often allowed us to get quite close . |
| 2 | I DO N'T KNOW how long the Curtiss P-40 has been my son 's favourite aircraft and I often wondered why . |
| 3 | It was a painful and upsetting divorce and I often felt completely swamped by guilt at having left my children . |
| 4 | Two white lads and a coloured one and er it was a white girl and I often wonder if that 's a good idea er whether they should all be the same colour . |
| 5 | There are free entry concerts on Sunday evenings at 6pm at XX and I often walk up there ( plus dog ! ) and enjoy the calm , the battery charge as it were , amidst the chores and bores of life ‘ in the high street ’ . |
| 6 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 7 | Most of them retained their medieval walls and intricate street patterns and they often served as ecclesiastical or secular centres of administration , but their major role was to act as retail , handicraft and distribution points for wide hinterlands . |
| 8 | Corral generally prefers buying from commercial galleries rather than auction houses and she often consults the artists about the works the Museum intends to buy . |
| 9 | She 'll say I 'm a travelling salesman and I often spend a night away . |
| 10 | The elderly people may have a range of social connections which would understandably be given up with reluctance and they often do not at that stage need to give up their home . |
| 11 | Eva had become eccentric : when a decision was needed Ted and I often had to wait while she retired upstairs and meditated on the exact shape of the conservatory or the dimensions of the kitchen . |
| 12 | Almost every day there were downpours of rain and it often poured throughout the night , making the ground so slippery that the camels found it difficult to keep on their feet . |
| 13 | It 's tempting to be manly and brutal at times but it often pays to be more cautions with your responses that are selected using a multiple choice system . |
| 14 | The clinical course of osteonecrosis is unpredictable in the individual case but it often disables the patient and results in need for alloplastic joint operations . |
| 15 | Reading the news for ITN means I sometimes work peculiar hours but I often have a weekday morning off , and that 's when I play golf . |
| 16 | Before 1970 it was largely left to the Weights and Measures Departments of local authorities to enforce those statutes which gave protection to the consumer of goods and they often took the view that they had no competence to deal with complaints which did not indicate a possible breach of the criminal law . |
| 17 | There was a lengthy getting-to-know-you period between Sam and his often ridiculed broomhandle putting implement . |
| 18 | I admit that I have been known to curse on occasion and I often talk to my machine telling it ‘ You will not beat me so you 'd better start behaving ! ’ |
| 19 | Also the fragility of the grammar — there are a number of features that are not covered by the grammar and it often takes a long time to reject the sentence . |
| 20 | could be the two of them they just , when er , when Lee set out on a Saturday evening with er Kevin and they often sit there and er have a , er a bit of a snack , supper , light supper and er |
| 21 | Because these will be resent as we know that have individual needs in individual ways and they often rub off one against the other if they live in closeness as we all do . |
| 22 | It is the main breeding place in the area and I often take visitors there in mid-June , when the pups are being born . |
| 23 | Mind you , Moscato played with a sprained elbow for virtually the entire game and we often packed down with only seven men . |
| 24 | Their solo missions over enemy territory were critical to the war planning and they often worked directly with Winston Churchill and the Cabinet . |
| 25 | However , it 's still a vague definition and we often find it more useful to er tidy that definition up by introducing , conformance with requirements . |
| 26 | Ipswich have used the new rolling substitutes rule to their advantage this season but it often means that the first choice players are only off the pitch for five or ten minutes at a time . |
| 27 | Disco added ‘ It is natural that a young growing company will not bother with bureaucratic controls and they often have weaker and smaller management — especially in Eastern Europe . ’ |
| 28 | They 're people who are pathetic , who are sad , who have had an awful lot of knocks in life and I often think that one of the things that everybody in society could do is actually talk to them a bit more . |
| 29 | She was on domestic routes and we often met up , like in Seville . |
| 30 | Orkney waters are warmed by the Gulf Streams and we often swam at Skail . |