Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] often [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was less worry than the lethargy which so often seemed to overcome him . |
| 2 | But these issues , which so often seem to dominate the debate in Scotland at party political level , are frankly of little moment to the electorate at large . |
| 3 | You can talk about it to a close friend , though , which very often helps to ease the situation and subsequently make yourself better . |
| 4 | As I say , it is the chorus which too often fails to rise to the occasion . |
| 5 | People who most often claimed to understand interest rates well were , in order : professional/managerial people , men ( as opposed to women ) , and people currently using a lot of credit . |
| 6 | She had left him , just as she so often threatened to do . |
| 7 | On the one hand the effect of human activity upon earth environment has been very apparent and increasing , and yet on the other hand until the 1950s or 1960s the significance of human activity did not attract much attention by physical geographers , who instead often chose to study environmental change before man , to seek processes largely unmodified by man , or at best to include man as an afterthought or an appendage . |
| 8 | The relevant form is 20 pages long and contains more than 50 questions , and the 1 million people a year who labour to fill it in often fail to do so or are helped by relatives and friends ; 100,000 go to the citizens advice bureaux for help . |
| 9 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 10 | Not only does development of this kind damage the setting , it very often fails to produce the promised restoration . |
| 11 | Although his love and understanding of much pertinently observed detail , he too often fails to energise the drama at key points , with tempi that are distinctly on the slow side . |