Example sentences of "[conj] often [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Through Miss Hatherby 's dolls and pictures , Constance became increasingly interested in her own clothes — and had rows over them with her mother that often reverberated for days .
2 She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini .
3 DMs , DMs , DMs , always boots , mostly black , and often daubed with ohms , stars , and yin and yangs , sometimes just sprayed gold or silver , and threaded with laces — purple , red , green , yellow , pink and striped .
4 Further north , the Langkawi islands are remote and less developed , and to the south lies the popular resort island of Pangkor , readily accessible from the mainland and often crowded during weekends and holidays .
5 Hence Behaviouralism , the version of a more general behaviourism specific to International Relations , which we shall meet in the next chapter , is commonly spoken of as a Positive approach and often contrasted with Realism on this score .
6 Extra guests could be put up in the boat itself , which had a permanent skipper and crew , enabling Bernard and Laura to escape at short notice to idyllic , inaccessible Mediterranean islands , Laura still could not swim and often groaned with seasickness .
7 Though much scholastic research and numerous books were written on the subject , the attack was only uncomfortably alluded to and often circumscribed in Hollywood 's efforts to cinematically present the war .
8 Accordingly the time was changed : I went in at 9 p.m. and often stayed until midnight or past .
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