Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventy-nine per cent saw the sufferer daily ( and if they did not live with him or her this often involved several visits per day ) . |
| 2 | Within the region of the Seine basin where Charles 's power was concentrated and where he most often stayed , the counts were of the " lesser " variety . |
| 3 | It was at those times , or times like the present as they went about the health-care tasks that were now so routine , that she most often brought up the question of this campaign over Tom . |
| 4 | She could quite happily spend a few days here , just remembering her own childhood : the train set , the beautifully designed doll 's house , the football game … it made her sad that she had no children of her own so that she could cling on to that childhood that she so often missed . |
| 5 | Thanks to all the readers who replied , and thanks for the nice things that you very often said . |
| 6 | Battells have also pointed out that they very often receive separate orders from the same areas and it is suggested that to save on carriage etc . |
| 7 | By all means let advertisers bring in history to help to sell their wares , but why is it that they so often mangle and corrupt it in the process ? |
| 8 | The preparation of a claim should not be the chore that it so often becomes . |
| 9 | The intrusive Boswell then took another liberty — ; that of pointing out to Johnson ‘ that he very often sat quite silent for a long time , even when in company with only a single friend ’ , at which Johnson reminded Boswell of an acquaintance who had once observed , ‘ Sir , you are like a ghost : you never speak till you are spoken to . ’ |
| 10 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 11 | Karelius talked mainly with Moreau , reflecting on the irony that he so often found the French easier to talk to than Austrians . |
| 12 | MH : And I very often have several paintings on the go , particularly oils . |
| 13 | When giving instruction in thermal soaring , I try to insist that students go on attempting to find lift until about 5–600 feet , and I very often explain my own thoughts and precautions as they do the flying . |
| 14 | Er I mean that goes back again to the articles which you might have about the way that parents talk to their children , and you quite often find that then very very quickly the children grow up speaking in a same way as the parent of that sex talked to the them . |
| 15 | erm a great deal is talked about democracy in schools and you very often have all kinds of organisations allegedly which take democratic decisions . |
| 16 | ‘ It takes a lot out of you to do anything well and it very often involves working long hours , but I would hate to believe I am a total workaholic . |
| 17 | Well it 's tomato mosaic virus int it , erm but what really is significant about it is that the leaves are mottled with yellow and it quite often go fern like , they go very very thin . |
| 18 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 19 | If you 've got a question , shout , shout out to start you on and that start up encourages cos it so often happens yeah bop bop bop bop bop and somebody is still basically looking for their rucksack while all the rest are up the , half way up the mountain . |
| 20 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 21 | And what so often happens is I ask a fairly innocuous question . |
| 22 | Not only do these give details of the various products but they also often have information about how and where the products are to be used as well as tips and hints on plumbing design and techniques . |
| 23 | Not only do the semi-empirical methods ( CNDO , INDO , MNDO , etc. ) fail to reproduce the absolute values of binding energies , but they also often predict the wrong orders of levels . |
| 24 | That 's not unusual , because I quite often find that one partner 's not working and therefore they 're not using up their tax allowance so at retirement or before , I can move money into their name , and there are good reasons for doing that . |
| 25 | To human eyes many of the body markings appear to be beautiful and highly conspicuous , but this is because we so often see them in artificial environments where their camouflage quality fails to show itself . |
| 26 | In this respect coins , generally speaking , give more help than other objects because they quite often declare either where or when they were made . |
| 27 | And they 're especially evocative , not just because they 're detailed period pieces ( just look at those sideburns ) but because they so often recall the circumstances in which we first watched them . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , this further emphasises the separateness of old people ( not dissimilar to mothers of young children ) precisely because they so often do not share in this extended range of opportunities and are more dependent on what is locally available . |
| 29 | It would be no use him arguing that he had nowhere to go because he so often found other places to spend nights . |
| 30 | And I remember very very well he had a big heavy coat and my mother put him in a very big pocket on the inside of the coat and we always called that his rabbit pocket , because he very often came home with a rabbit . |