Example sentences of "often [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Sebastian is dead , long dead , and Alix is married to Brian Bowen , son of a saw polisher , grandson of a furnaceman , and often sits with him on an old settee in her stockinged feet . |
| 2 | Drake often sits on water with tail cocked up . |
| 3 | Nor can his late nights : he often sits till three in the morning watching a film on TV . |
| 4 | It often turns into a ‘ hat party ’ with friends sitting around wearing all sorts of styles while they have a drink . ’ |
| 5 | Unsurprisingly , dinner-table talk often turns to incorporation and limited liability . |
| 6 | Their presence or absence in discourse often contributes to style , and some conjunctions can sound very pompous when used inappropriately . |
| 7 | Oh yes , it often irritates in the same way when you first start to drink spirits you feel |
| 8 | I 've found the increasing dogmatism and certainty that she 's right the most sinister thing about her because that so often goes with paranoid feelings , and it may be that this is one manifestation of that . |
| 9 | Less developed field dependence often goes with greater need to rely on other people for evaluation of one 's own attitudes . |
| 10 | Since one essential quality of a good toastmaster is a loud voice , ( which often goes with an imposing , extrovert personality ) they will get attention faster than you can ( an alternative way to get the attention of the audience is to ask the band , if you have one , to do a drum roll for you ) . |
| 11 | Now the other thing that very often goes with this is a crunching noise |
| 12 | Perhaps he was going to Porteneil to get drunk in the Rock Hotel , or perhaps he was off to Inverness , where he often goes on business he prefers to keep mysterious , but I suspected that it was really something to do with Eric . |
| 13 | And he says he enjoys walking ; he often goes for long walks by himself . ’ |
| 14 | When the glider is desperately low the pilot 's handling often goes to pieces , and he may over-rudder in an effort to get round a final turn without touching a wing-tip or turning any steeper . |
| 15 | He never stops talking about it and often goes to Elland Road . |
| 16 | The motor industry often goes to the expense of building a completely new factory site to ensure that the manufacturing capability does match their requirements exactly . |
| 17 | One often goes to extremes in order to arrive at a physical configuration that is mathematically soluble by simple means . |
| 18 | To keep warm she often goes to Plus One , a single parents ' organisation . |
| 19 | I go about in a wheelchair and someone who pushes it very often goes into a shop and says , ‘ Look here , you have bought rather a lot of things I think you had better give a cheque for them — now I ? I write the cheque out , dear , and you shall sign it . ’ |
| 20 | that 's got asthma , and he often goes into or dia he 's a ba diabetic or summat and goes into comas . |
| 21 | Indeed , at times like this , may be it is useful simply to restate what , for many people , is so obvious it often goes without saying . |
| 22 | What sometimes causes a little confusion to strangers is the fact that virtually the same region often goes under other names . |
| 23 | However , the Howard sound often goes beyond that of a mere guitar . |
| 24 | Mr Norman has more than one Ferrari , uses his Aston Martin as often as the Rolls-Royce but admits that Laura , his wife , often goes in the family Range Rover to have her hair done . |
| 25 | Right Some of the commoner types of fern-like foliage from the Carboniferous Such foliage often belongs to the seed ferns , rather than the true ferns |
| 26 | So while homophobia may sometimes originate in and , as it circulates socially , reconnect with repressed desire , the latter can not be homophobia 's necessary condition since it often circulates without it , and in a socio-political form which is more rapid , more widespread , more economical , and possibly more destructive . |
| 27 | As I have said earlier , we all need encouragement and often remarks from the most unexpected quarters are the most gratifying . |
| 28 | Milton accompanied by his miniature replica , Bo-bo , Joanne 's Shetland pony , John often rides with his children , and the two eldest are already keen on jumping . |
| 29 | Peppermint , M. x piperita , needs no description as to smell , but the leaves of black peppermint tend to be ovate , 6cm ( 2½in ) long and 4cm ( 1½in ) wide , and are purple tinged — this is grown commercially and is the one used for peppermint tea , so popular in North Africa , Pineapple mint , M. rotundifolia " Variegata " , is a form of the round-leaved mint , which often crosses with M. longifolia . |
| 30 | Once a ridge has developed , it often persists for many weeks . |