Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] often " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the region of the Seine basin where Charles 's power was concentrated and where he most often stayed , the counts were of the " lesser " variety . |
| 2 | Yes , its funny cos its not often we get that one , but I |
| 3 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 4 | If you 've got a question , shout , shout out to start you on and that start up encourages cos it so often happens yeah bop bop bop bop bop and somebody is still basically looking for their rucksack while all the rest are up the , half way up the mountain . |
| 5 | That 's not unusual , because I quite often find that one partner 's not working and therefore they 're not using up their tax allowance so at retirement or before , I can move money into their name , and there are good reasons for doing that . |
| 6 | To human eyes many of the body markings appear to be beautiful and highly conspicuous , but this is because we so often see them in artificial environments where their camouflage quality fails to show itself . |
| 7 | In this respect coins , generally speaking , give more help than other objects because they quite often declare either where or when they were made . |
| 8 | And they 're especially evocative , not just because they 're detailed period pieces ( just look at those sideburns ) but because they so often recall the circumstances in which we first watched them . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , this further emphasises the separateness of old people ( not dissimilar to mothers of young children ) precisely because they so often do not share in this extended range of opportunities and are more dependent on what is locally available . |
| 10 | It would be no use him arguing that he had nowhere to go because he so often found other places to spend nights . |
| 11 | And I remember very very well he had a big heavy coat and my mother put him in a very big pocket on the inside of the coat and we always called that his rabbit pocket , because he very often came home with a rabbit . |
| 12 | Since you very often can not physically divide the space , you have to divide the ‘ look ’ with different lighting or rugs or colour to make separate visual areas . |
| 13 | We might imagine that access to housing would be equal for men and women , since they most often share this in the marital home . |
| 14 | It would have been a richer joy — but , indeed , as I so often tell you , I delight to picture you in a childlike serenity . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean , Miss Celia , as I still often think of her , being that young at the time and Mrs Tremayne not wanting her to know , pledging me and my eldest brother , Bert , to secrecy . |
| 16 | ‘ When you 've looked at me coldly — as you so often have — I 've wanted to warm you , melt you . |
| 17 | ‘ You are a part of it , ’ he interrupted caustically , ‘ whether you like it or not , and at the moment you are the only friend Steve Cannock has and if you feel for him as you so often have claimed to you 'll be at his side when he needs you . ’ |
| 18 | She had left him , just as she so often threatened to do . |
| 19 | ‘ I wish I had red hair , ’ Samantha said to her mother , inspecting herself as she so often did in the tarnished mirror surrounded with gilded laurel leaves and intertwined cherubs . |
| 20 | She realized she was fiddling with her finger-socket as she so often did , but it was a useful habit now and she did n't stop . |
| 21 | ‘ You always look so well , ’ said Kitty , as she so often said . |
| 22 | He looked away and she said the word for him , anticipating him without quite knowing how , as she so often did . |
| 23 | Glenda Grower stood a little aside , as she so often did — splendid , cool , apart . |
| 24 | Then she retraced her steps , pausing , as she so often did , when she reached the landing . |
| 25 | An increasing number of directors of sponsoring companies are beginning to ask ‘ What did we get for our money ? ’ when they so often see players to whom considerable appearance fees have been paid , losing limply in their first or second round matches and , even worse , then turning round and implying that the only tournaments they really take seriously are the Grand Slams . |
| 26 | It is positively helpful if his poems are written out as prose ( as they actually often are in the case of those lyrics embedded in prose treatises as opposed to independent lyrics ) because they are then naturally read for the speaking voice and not with any expectation of the regularity roused by the sight of poetic form . |
| 27 | For women without previous commitment to their own career , dependent as they still often are on the normally higher earnings of men , there may be the excitement of starting their life project , married to their husband 's job and caring for him and their much hoped-for children . |
| 28 | It could also explain why the goats have not increased there as they so often have on other islands . |
| 29 | They were thoughtful , grave , as they so often were ; but Breeze had a queer impression that they were veiled tonight . |
| 30 | Her eyes were drawn , as they so often were , to his portrait hanging just outside the Director 's office . |