Example sentences of "[pers pn] often [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often mix French chocolate with an English dessert variety for chocolate sauces . |
| 2 | ‘ I often feel French food is a trifle rich , ’ contributed Glastonbury . |
| 3 | Victoria lives just outside Cheltenham and she often watches Central News . |
| 4 | Where we often have great difficulty with Community proposals is when co-operation is replaced not by agreement but by majority voting on issues of concern to us . |
| 5 | Because of their early contact with parents they often had considerable influence in steering parents towards specialist provision . |
| 6 | There was uproar when the Navy discovered the mines and Stirling had to own up , only to be told that they often dropped small depth charges at random into the harbour and if they saw anything suspicious sprayed the area with machine guns . |
| 7 | Leaving aside the fact , to which we will return in a moment , that less skilled people can usually be paid less wages than those who are skilled , an important characteristic of craft workers is that they often exercise tight control as an occupation over the job that they do . |
| 8 | But it soon became apparent to the pioneering voluntary organizations that established them , such as the Richmond Fellowship , that patients who had been mentally unwell for years did not miraculously become capable of independent living in a short space of time ; they often needed permanent help and support and coped particularly poorly with changes in their environment and lifestyle . |
| 9 | They often wanted big money for private purposes , for example setting up a property company or buying a Ferrari . |
| 10 | An image of the Great Chain of Being was at the very heart of him ; he often had considerable difficulty in marshalling the arguments for apostasy . |
| 11 | He often does aerial reconnaissance for Dave . |
| 12 | Edvard Munch , whom many art historians would describe as one of the greatest print-makers of the century , fails to qualify as ‘ blue-chip ’ , despite occasional high prices at auction , because he often used poor quality paper and the impressions are not always of the best quality . |
| 13 | Poverty amongst the general populous was still quite common , at that time , and it often meant appalling destitution . |
| 14 | In the early Middle Ages it often meant kaleidoscopic change on the political scene but the new pattern ( unlike a kaleidoscope 's ) took some time to form . |
| 15 | Even when feminist psychology deals with class differences , it often reproduces conventional psychology 's concentration on areas which dominant discourses of class see as important , like sexuality , and attitudes to success ( Rainwater 1972 , Weston and Mednick 1972 ) , and proves unable to see working-class subjects as psychologically or socially different from each other . |