Example sentences of "often [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the objets d'art were bought on her orders , at home and abroad ; others she prised out of rich Iranians who often found her acquisitiveness on behalf of the country irksome but impossible to resist . |
| 2 | ( At Taï , a young chimpanzee will often harass its mother in order to use her tools , to eat her fruit or to sit on her branch . ) |
| 3 | In addition , there are many other disciplines — philosophy , psychology and psychiatry , sociology and anthropology , Artificial Intelligence , media studies , literary studies — which often examine their object of study — the mind , society , other cultures , computers , the media , works of literature — through language , and are thus carrying out their own discourse analysis , very often some of the best . |
| 4 | Yet the poet often sees her appearance in relation to her poverty , as one manifestation of a generally bleak and constrained way of life . |
| 5 | Her technique is poor and her instruction often shows her lack of knowledge . |
| 6 | For you know I often wonder what sort of morality it is that keeps men from anything but superficial intercourse with any woman but their wives : yet I hate adultery & all the intermediate stages ; and what men of free habits in this way I have known , I have detested . |