Example sentences of "we often " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that we often feel that our thoughts come unheralded by ‘ intentions ’ , that the content of our mental life is unwilled , just demonstrates how thin is the layer of consciousness . |
| 2 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 3 | While the quality of English wines can now compare with estate-grown and bottled wines from Germany or Alsace — in that they are fairly uniform — they bear the crisply full-flowered taste we often look for in a good table wine or aperitif . |
| 4 | We often find it takes three or four years before a youth is used to a regular life once more . |
| 5 | These views concern the fact that the singular particular things which we can point to and pick out with the words ‘ this ’ and ‘ that ’ , and to which we often give names , such as ‘ James ’ or ‘ John ’ , are not thought of as being merely particular . |
| 6 | In Salamanca we often smiled at each other as we passed along a street called Street of the Two Poets — or was it a little plaza ? |
| 7 | We often went up the hill from The Gantry , for a stroll , you know . |
| 8 | Another requirement of horses , which we often do n't consider , is the need for light . |
| 9 | When we come face to face with a horse we often feel a need or pressure to do something . |
| 10 | The difficulty with this sort of material is that we often do not know if the coins have been acquired on a random and thus representative basis . |
| 11 | Of course , we often push uncomfortable thoughts ‘ to the back of our mind ’ . |
| 12 | We often pray in Assembly that we may be gentle and kind with other people . |
| 13 | As we become older , we often try to appear more sophisticated and , in doing so , we lose much of the sense of wonder and excitement we felt when we were younger . |
| 14 | The question : ‘ Am I my brother 's keeper ? ’ is one that we often hear quoted . |
| 15 | The author directs attention to the all-important consideration of scale : ‘ We often see some of the smallest growing shrubs placed where the largest trees should have been planted . ’ |
| 16 | But when we observe two or more elements and we wish to define a relationship between them , we often turn to a third form of abstraction : we project a feeling quality onto the relationship . |
| 17 | But other factors play a part — and because of them , we often find regions that are extremely well endowed with living things , even in high latitudes , and often in areas where common sense suggests that life might be most difficult . |
| 18 | This reminds us that when talking in terms of ‘ theists ’ and ‘ atheists ’ we often forget that there are various kinds of theism . |
| 19 | We often lost each other on the seven barges being pushed a thousand miles up the Zaire River , once Conrad 's Congo . |
| 20 | We often feel like one of the black sheep of the independent sector — accepting a licence fee puts you in the not-serious programme makers ' league . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In reality , however , we often take each other , and God , for granted , and fail to see how our lives could really be . |
| 23 | Orkney waters are warmed by the Gulf Streams and we often swam at Skail . |
| 24 | Even in those days , the South Tyne had good runs of salmon and we often stood by the weir at Haltwhistle in September , watching salmon fighting their way upstream . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Most of them are common sense but you would be surprised how , in our eagerness to succeed , we often forget them . |
| 27 | And yet we often find that examinations take place at the very time of year when there is most likelihood of a heatwave . |
| 28 | It is for this reason that we often feel isolated in our quest ; after all , if no two people share the same experiences , no one can tell you the best way to deal with a particular situation . |
| 29 | We often had a cashflow problem because we had to pay them before we got paid . |
| 30 | We often reached our overdraft limit because of a sticky cashflow — and after taking on a large mortgage to pay for a new factory we could n't raise any further borrowing for the second production line we needed much sooner than expected . |