Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] often in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I , I , I did n't say the question lightly it 's just that I think it needs watching , and I wondered how it was , because I 've heard so often in the past , that people have so many lines of enquiries , but the money goes , and you know , it 's all marvellous , and I 'm not suggesting |
| 2 | Nor , in truth , had they done so often in the past . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've seen this done so often in the films but to be arrested myself … |
| 6 | That would need the full , undivided and unambiguous support of every decent person in Northern Ireland , and the support of the Dublin Government , who have equivocated too often in the past . |
| 7 | It was the sort of mistake he had made too often in the past and accounted for him standing on the brink of a lonely middle age . |
| 8 | This led to a general disillusionment with house-planning which today means that the Council planning policy is honoured more often in the breach than in anything else . |
| 9 | There are several ways of expressing the factors affecting the cash position in the money market , but this is the method used most often in the Bank 's Quarterly Bulletin . |
| 10 | The only reason I can suggest for this is that they may have ‘ member get member fatigue ’ ; ie it has been used very often in the past and now sees diminishing returns . |
| 11 | The artistic approach involves a more intuitive , creative way of thinking that is not always entirely logical , is found more often in the ladies ’ approach and comes with experience . |
| 12 | The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past . |