Example sentences of "often [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now at Thorsbury she and Victoria often rode to the fields to watch the men labouring and when it was clear that the work of leading and stacking the corn would soon be at an end , she kept the child entranced with stories of the Harvest Suppers of her youth . |
| 2 | Between 1953 and 1970 , the high-yielding seeds , which were introduced in a number of LDCs , such as Mexico , Colombia , India , The Philippines , Sri Lanka and Indonesia , often led to more abundant harvests of rice or wheat . |
| 3 | Miscarriages procured in this way often led to death or malformed births . |
| 4 | For these women , speaking out often led to a wider debate on sexuality and gender . |
| 5 | Paradoxically , attending courses at the Civil Service College often led to more dissatisfaction when contrasted with the reality of civil service life . |
| 6 | Nationalized industries created additional difficulties ; volume planning often led to overcapacity and excessive output , with huge losses having to be written off . |
| 7 | Henceforth each successive royal election provoked party conflicts and personal intrigues which often led to civil war , as well as pressure and even forcible intervention from abroad on behalf of competing candidates . |
| 8 | The stabbings provoked widespread alarm in Israel and often led to retaliatory attacks on innocent Arabs . |
| 9 | Yet , their combination of idealism with an emphasis on realism and ornamentation was a typical feature of their own , which often led to a clear mannerism . |
| 10 | This often led to unused spare capacity , as beds were closed and surgeons idle towards the end of the financial year . |
| 11 | This was complicated by the desire of some hospitals and community services to apply for self-governing status and achieve total independence from health authority control , which often led to local conflicts . |
| 12 | In Howard 's time , the main problem in respect of remuneration was that the gaoler was expected to generate his own income , by what often amounted to extortion from those in his charge or their family and friends . |
| 13 | The number of exempted people often amounted to 30–40 per cent of the community , and sometimes even more , so if the proportion is much lower than that the historian is left wondering whether his list is complete . |
| 14 | In all parts of the country Wesleyan Methodism had become the chief alternative to the Established Church and in purely agricultural regions religious differences often amounted to a choice between either the Church of England or Wesleyan and Primitive Methodism . |
| 15 | Overall shortages often amounted to more than £1 billion per day in the mid-1980s . |
| 16 | It often occurred to her that she might never leave Florence again even when she had the money and means to do so . |
| 17 | He was in a good frame of mind : he often referred to the royal garden party when he was in a good frame of mind . |
| 18 | Given the controversy that surrounded Epstein 's sculpture and drawings , the persona presented by the contemporary media and the manner in which even mainstream criticism often alluded to the supposedly alien character of his work , explicitly stressing the otherness of artist and art , a critical biography would be extremely valuable . |
| 19 | My father slept with an indelible pencil and paper by his bed because gags often came to him in his sleep and he 'd wake up laughing . |
| 20 | According to the count , the bill for the holiday party often came to £500 . |
| 21 | Like many athletes Linford often came to him for advice . |
| 22 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
| 23 | John , a 14 year old , often came to school early . |
| 24 | Greta Ross often came to the beach to swim , but Mr Ross never came . |
| 25 | In the summer months companies of players often came to small towns , and in 1587 five different companies came . |
| 26 | I 'd worked at for 18 years and often came to the Terminal to check the weigh-bridge . |
| 27 | In this 1976 series he was still unsure of himself tactically , gave the impression that he had little plan of campaign thought out , and often seemed to be changing his bowling and field settings more on a whim than on a good tactical basis . |
| 28 | Ruckelshaus is a marked contrast to Burford and her political mentor , the Interior Secretary James Watt , whose attitude often seemed to be that the environment was over-protected . |
| 29 | Far from shunning the courts , Sri Lankans made what very often seemed to the British excessive use of them . |
| 30 | The consequences of this often seemed to be a neglect of Europe , but the impression was misleading . |