Example sentences of "she [modal v] often " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eve looked out of the window down the town , standing as she must often have done over the years . |
| 2 | Only later did I appreciate what sacrifices my mother made to give it to us , and how lonely she must often have been when we were all away at school ; after our father 's death she became almost possessively devoted to us . |
| 3 | Instead of reading novels she could often be overheard praying fervently in her private room . |
| 4 | It was five weeks before she would regularly go for the chick along the line , and even then she 'd often wait for up to ten minutes to make up her mind . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm misplaced , ’ was a thing she 'd often say . |
| 6 | ‘ When things got too hot for her at home with Margaret she 'd often spend a night at my flat cooling off . ’ |
| 7 | Then I could not forgive how ( she said ) she would often hit my husband when he was a little boy and naughty , on his bare bottom , with the bristles of a hairbrush . |
| 8 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 9 | She was so disorganised and absent-minded that , while out visiting , she would often forget that she had a daughter , leaving her stranded for hours . |
| 10 | She would often pick up finger foods and eat them , but only in small quantities , and developed a preference for lumps of butter which she would eat in her fingers . |
| 11 | When she played , charging him at full speed , she would often knock him over but always retracted her claws , which , when used for hunting in the wild , can tear a wild pig or deer apart . |
| 12 | ‘ She would often get out in the night and sleep on the floor , usually next to us . |
| 13 | She had to accept the fact that he might not return to the convent and , sad though it made her , she would often lay her cheek against the rough heather and whisper his name . |
| 14 | ‘ She would often come and have an afternoon cup of tea with me and then pick my brain as to what BA had asked me to do that morning . |
| 15 | But she would often tell friends how keenly she felt a responsibility not just for her employees ' jobs , but for their health , their mortgages , their children 's educations and the entire survival of the rural community in Carno . |
| 16 | Although she embraced the need for each collection to be a little different in order to move forward , she would often be upset that what she considered a beautiful print could not be included in the collection for ever . |
| 17 | Obviously she will often clash with the adults who are grooming her for life . |