Example sentences of "often [verb] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the constraints of women 's lifestyles and their domestic and family responsibilities often mean that they are effectively discriminated against in terms of availability for election and service . |
| 2 | In the years that followed , his mother 's friends would often comment that he had an old head on young shoulders . |
| 3 | A company often thinks that it can let space for a short term — say two or three years — and then move back in once the business climate has improved . |
| 4 | Partners , particularly in the smaller of the merging firms , often fear that they will lose out in the merger — even to the extent of having to leave the merged firm . |
| 5 | On a first tank you may choose to cut cables to length and glue the cable tidy to the side of the tank — however as you get more experienced and acquire more tanks you often realise that you 'll be moving kit about a lot , and leave the full length of cable in place on the item so that it 's more adaptable . |
| 6 | I 've never measured how long they stay under water , but tourists walking along the path to the waterfall often report that they think a bird is drowning ! |
| 7 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 8 | Clients often report that they stop seeing themselves as abnormal when they meet others in a similar situation . |
| 9 | ‘ We often say that we are looking for the intention of Parliament , but that is not quite accurate . |
| 10 | Lord Browne-Wilkinson quotes the observation of Lord Reid that ‘ we often say that we are looking for the intention of Parliament but that is not quite accurate . |
| 11 | Team leaders often say that they could have gone faster on their own . |
| 12 | Mothers often say that they say the same things over and over again and end up losing their tempers in order to get a response . |
| 13 | While it does seem to be a little less pernicious , in that male respondents less often say that they want to marry only a woman who is a virgin than they used to , it is still alive and well in that women are more often criticized than men for engaging in non-marital sexual activity . |
| 14 | Disabled patients who speak well of their doctors often say that they spend time with them , they listen , are helpful , visit regularly and are reliable . |
| 15 | On the other , members often say that they do n't feel involved ; that committees do all the work without reference to them . |
| 16 | John has some mysterious tales to tell about the castle : ‘ Visitors often say that they can smell newly-baked bread in the drawing room in the eastern tower . |
| 17 | She had lived in the States for several years but she still retained her British accent , though she often maintained that she loathed England and would never return to it . |
| 18 | Although she often maintained that it was her own choice not to attend , she told an American interviewer , I would love to go to board meetings where he [ Bernard ] is chairman but I 'm not invited . |
| 19 | Foreign teachers of English often joked that they could not pass TOEFL , but for the Chinese students it was no laughing matter . |
| 20 | He is an intellectual man but since he has married , a woman who is quite the opposite of him , the reader often notices that he retreats to his library during the course of the book . |
| 21 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |
| 22 | On the other hand , where maggots are regularly fed into the water in swims which bream frequent , it very often happens that they take over completely and all other baits , including bread , are ignored almost entirely . |
| 23 | It often happens that we wish to change the status of the bistable outputs with successive lock pulses . |
| 24 | I 've often said that we go and have a look |
| 25 | Bon has often said that we 're supposed to finish at |
| 26 | He 'd walk me home from school and it 's often said that he carried my ballet shoes , which sounds kind of romantic , but he actually did sometimes , if I was carrying a whole load of things . |
| 27 | It is often said that it is not very easy to turn an omelette back into eggs . |
| 28 | It is often said that you can discover a great deal about a person 's character by the books on their shelves . |
| 29 | Anna Ford has often said that she believed that a woman should have had a role on our Election Night programmes . |
| 30 | Mary often suspected that he was with his grandmother and involved in her shady activities , though her mother would always deny it . |