Example sentences of "do [adv] often " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor , in truth , had they done so often in the past . |
| 2 | Sadly , I can not share your optimistic conclusion , which implies we will always muddle through together as we have done so often in the past . |
| 3 | Up at five and sleeping badly of late , Luke kept his mind off Perdita and himself awake on the long straight roads , as he had done so often in the past , by concentrating on a particular horse . |
| 4 | Once one of the greatest centres in the world , Gerber demonstrated all the arts running , handling , tackling , kicking , passing and , as he has done so often , try-scoring . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've seen this done so often in the films but to be arrested myself … |
| 6 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 7 | It is indeed historic , not because reforms of local government have not taken place before — they have done so often — but because it offers a reform of the structure of local government . |
| 8 | Are we simply to chuck out these extra six constituencies and say no to the French , we 're not going to agree to extra silly expenditure or are we in fact going to cave in as we 've done so often . |
| 9 | The extraordinary thing is that reviewing is n't done more often as a systematic deliberate process . |
| 10 | NEVER PUT ANYTHING ON THE RAILWAY LINE — I do n't think many of you would be stupid enough to do this but believe me it has been done and still is done quite often . |
| 11 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 12 | Erm then we wonder whether to offer people the chance of , you know , offer them a resit year or whether we want to ask them to withdraw asking people to withdraw is very rare actually , I have n't seen that done very often |
| 13 | It will be able to negotiate directly with the Council on proposed amendments rather than going through the Commission and , in the last resort , it will be able to reject the agreed position of the Council on legislation , although it is unlikely to do so often . |
| 14 | In addition , the police are requiring promoters to observe the appropriate minimum age and failure to do so often results in permission being refused . |
| 15 | It is easy to stop squabbles and arguments in the interests of peace and harmony , yet to do so often prevents us from observing significant behaviour which can give the counsellor invaluable insight into how older people think and feel about themselves , other people and their situation . |
| 16 | You 'll have to fit yourself into other surroundings , as I had to do so often . ’ |
| 17 | It 's something very close to what I 'm saying erm and erm I 'm saying perhaps one thing in addition , which is that just as when we look into the future , which , as a historian , I 'm asked to do more often , I think , these days than looking at the past , but when we look into the future , we have different versions of what that future will be . |
| 18 | you see , you just think it 's or have you experienced that you were , first you had a bad or a good impression and then you had to change which I used to do very often . |
| 19 | The presence of particulate matter and/or condensible fractions in the odorous gas stream must be removed , normally by filtration and condensation respectively , before the main absorption process , and in doing so often partial abatement of the odour nuisance is achieved at that stage . |
| 20 | Nevertheless among these peoples there are sometimes individuals , frequently sincere , who claim to have no belief in a ‘ god ’ of any kind , but who , notwithstanding this , will often be found to be living a life in accordance with at least some part of an organised religion , and doing so often quite unbeknown even to themselves . |
| 21 | I can just about get down here of a morning and then I 'm stuck until someone gives me a' and up , which they do n't want to be doing too often , do they dear ? " |
| 22 | He seemed especially interested in the times he had Vulcan out at night , as he did so often last year . |
| 23 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 24 | People did not have to face the problem alone as they do so often when it comes to social security benefit cuts . |
| 25 | Rachel and Phoebe did not often invite each other to formal meals , although they often ate together with Maggie . |
| 26 | The following year he was back to Motspur Park to attack the half-mile record , a distance he did not often run . |
| 27 | As a consequence of the difficulties of poverty in which many working-class children were raised , education did not often provide an escape route for them and many , particularly in towns like Jarrow , faced the prospect of juvenile unemployment . |
| 28 | Although Weinberger opposed it , he did not often do so with force : partly because , it seemed to him , nobody was foolish enough to propose it with much vehemence . |
| 29 | They did not often do so , and the women had no recorded daughters , only sons . |
| 30 | In practice , that rarely happened because , they said , people from Awlad Amira and from Jlulat were travelling in a vast area and so did not often meet ; and because , knowing that all Jlulat would unite , Amira refrained from attack , and vice versa . |