Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [adv] often [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing !
2 Only 5 per cent of the children saw their parents as often as once a month ; 41 per cent had no parental contact .
3 According to the study , the means-tested benefit is reaching its targets more often and more effectively than many had feared .
4 McKeown and his colleagues blame the general hospitals for killing their patients more often than relieving them , at least until the 1875 public Health Act .
5 She discards her admirers as often as she discards gloves , and poor Mama spends most of her time comforting the latest reject .
6 The matter is complicated by the fact that across the social spectrum some families changed their surnames as often as their surcoats , and individuals had , in the course of their lives , sometimes as many as three or four surnames , any of which could be adopted quite haphazardly by their progeny .
7 Unsurprisingly , Zeng 's childhood was not a happy one , and he played truant from his persecutors as often as he could .
8 But the spirited kid who used to wear a badge proclaiming Born To Raise Hell was also in trouble with his teachers more often than not .
9 Meanwhile , England coach Dick Best pledged : ‘ We will carry the ball in our hands as often as possible against Wales .
10 Perhaps I am in your thoughts as often as you are in mine dearest Elsie .
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