Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] so often " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of the pitch I 'd been worried I could n't do it ; by the belay I was wondering why I 'd rested so often . |
| 2 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 3 | When some part of his mind prompted the words that he had heard so often , boyish fancy , his inside actually jerked in protest . |
| 4 | He repeated the phrases he had heard so often on TV but Ralph sneered . |
| 5 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 6 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 7 | And when that smile , that patronizing masculine smile which she had endured so often , was beamed at her , she felt her confidence drain away and retreat with a scrabbling of small stones like a departing wave . |
| 8 | That devil , born of isolation , he had seen so often destroy young men through exhaustion , frustration and despair . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The cloth was linen , for Mrs Maugham held that plastic table cloths were the last resort of the working classes , and had said so often and at length ; but it was adorned with place mats of plastic . |
| 12 | ( For he would never leave her ) If she found a place of her own , with other comrades of course — why , she had moved so often , it was nothing , she could do it easily . |
| 13 | She was always there , and she would tell , as she had told so often before , the remarkable story of her Jimmy , who 'd been posted as dead last December and who , six months later , had simply walked into the house , bold as you please , and asked for a cup of tea . |
| 14 | ‘ It does n't matter , Julia , ’ said Anthony with a return of the impatience he had shown so often before she got ill . |
| 15 | How he misses the good old days when he would punt out OTC stock , even though the punters had invested so often in vain . |
| 16 | I wondered whether Robert and Lili had spoken so often like this that neither had any longer the energy to shout , or whether there never had been anger between them . |
| 17 | The French negotiators had very little leverage , because their president had indicated so often and so publicly his determination to reach an agreement as soon as possible . |
| 18 | The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest . |
| 19 | It was because all that had happened so often that the baby was coming . |
| 20 | She had come to question him and , as had happened so often , her father had taken over the conversation . |
| 21 | Clare had planned so often the details of her own wedding , so often pictured herself , radiant in a long , white dress with train , leaning on her father 's arm , advancing with a slow , fragile step down the aisle towards Mark , handsome and smiling in morning dress , while the organ pealed and the candles and flowers blazed , and the guests beamed and whispered in the crowded pews — that she felt a surge of pity for the girl who would have nothing to remember but this sordid little ceremony . |
| 22 | He had expressed so often the depth of his love and had made it clear to me that I had given meaning to his life . |
| 23 | ‘ You ca n't solve Ireland 's problems with a gun , ’ their father had told them and he had repeated so often the words of Archbishop Paul Cullen , one of Ireland 's great clerics , that they were still fresh in Father Brendan 's mind . |
| 24 | In the secrecy of that room , where she had lain so often in David 's loving arms , her eyes now betrayed all . |