Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] often [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am a fairly lonely person — I do have friends but I do n't get to see them very often because of my unsociable shift work . |
| 2 | ‘ Mum gets a bit tired ; I go to see them as often as I can : it cheers Dad up , and Mum loves the children . ’ |
| 3 | I try to see them as often as I can . |
| 4 | Both men and women lowered their chances of developing cataracts when they stopped smoking , but still got them more often than non-smokers . |
| 5 | If you want potatoes with your meal , cook them more often as boiled or jacket potatoes rather than as chips . |
| 6 | Herta comes down to visit me as often as she can , which is not very often , because this is wartime , after all . |
| 7 | To ensure that his subjects acquired the habit of carrying out his instructions he had to visit them as often as possible , and although the king 's itinerary was normally publicized in advance — so that merchants and tradesmen , as well as petitioners , could frequent his court without difficulty — it was sometimes useful to turn up without warning . |
| 8 | Metal type wears out , and new ‘ founts ’ ( complete sets of a single design ) are expensive — so the best printer in the world is not going to replace them more often than absolutely necessary . |
| 9 | we always use at least three for a piano because although two men can lift them very often if you 're going round awkward corners it helps to have a third person s to steady them . |
| 10 | You must allow all the horror of the picture to visit you as often as it will . |
| 11 | They do n't analyze it as often as we do . |
| 12 | We would n't go in at a , I would n't go in at all , but Stuart 's mum used to live right opposite and she likes to go in occasionally cos she sees all her old friends , she do n't see them very often so she likes to go in and see all her old friends , otherwise I do n't |
| 13 | Ben Weatherstaff , now in the secret , joined them as often as he could . |
| 14 | I was living up Redruth way and I used to go and see her as often as I could , because I sort of sensed she was n't all that happy . |
| 15 | It conditioned my hair really well but I think I may have used it too often because my hair became a little TOO soft to style after a while ! ’ |
| 16 | Questioned on attitudes to public transport , 82 per cent replied that it was not suitable and 48 per cent said they would use it more often if services were improved . |
| 17 | If you do not have scales and can not afford them , try to borrow some , or find your nearest public scales and visit them as often as you can . |
| 18 | I was using a hand-pump , and then an electric pump to stimulate my milk supply , although at first I was too distressed and unmotivated to do it as often as necessary and consequently did n't produce anything when I did pump . |
| 19 | They consider Northern Ireland to be their second home and visit it as often as possible . |
| 20 | Please do not forget your university , come and visit us as often as you can and watch how we grow and change . |
| 21 | I treated her rotten whilst I was studying like I would n't take time off studying to go and see her or phone her when I saw her as often as I could , every weekend |
| 22 | I saw him as often as I could and at first we concentrated on his anger . |
| 23 | Well you wan na split it as often as you can . |
| 24 | You will thus benefit from being clear in what you are aiming at and successfully achieving it more often than not |
| 25 | So much so that , although it had not been mentioned at all in the advance publicity , it was given no fewer than 87 times that season and remained in the programmes for the next six seasons , by which time the company had danced it more often than any other work in their repertory except Les Sylphides and two of Ashton 's ballets , Façade and Les Rendezvous . |
| 26 | In the coming weeks and months , ask yourself as often as you can remember : ‘ Why am I creating this ? |
| 27 | You have to carry it as often as often and you 're supposed |
| 28 | And going back to the taking of the bread to the erm er bakehouse erm if there was a fire going they did n't do that , because they were baked in the oven , but in the summertime we did it more often than in the winter , because if there was no fire you see , there was no gas cooker or anything like that , all the cooking was done on the coal fire and the oven at the side of it . |
| 29 | Will licking the soil do her any harm and will I need to worm her more often as two ponies go in the paddock as well ? |
| 30 | Mummy is there and I 'd thought she was in good hands but of course I could n't visit her as often as I 'd like while earning my megamillions . |