Example sentences of "so often did " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were few children lucky enough to visit the cinema mid-week , as he so often did , and that made Frankie feel particularly privileged . |
| 2 | Still , it provided the Gray family with regular exercise , so often did we pursue it over large tracts of Scotland as the tent tried to escape home to warmer climes in the south , flapping its PVC accessories like the wings of a large , wounded goose trying to take off . |
| 3 | He stopped Henry , as he so often did , in the street one afternoon and said , as he so often did , ‘ Drinking and driving , Henry , wreck lives . ’ |
| 4 | He stopped Henry , as he so often did , in the street one afternoon and said , as he so often did , ‘ Drinking and driving , Henry , wreck lives . ’ |
| 5 | Merckx was known as ‘ the cannibal ’ , so often did he scoop up the prizes , even in minor events when he might have been expected to allow minor or local riders to have their day . |
| 6 | He could n't bear to wake up screaming on the plane as he so often did alone at night at Robinsgrove . |
| 7 | The austere ideal , the man who acts out his principles and endures what is — can you imagine Michel Devaux saying as my father so often did , I 've only got one life and so much time , I ca n't afford to stand back ? |
| 8 | ‘ I wish I had red hair , ’ Samantha said to her mother , inspecting herself as she so often did in the tarnished mirror surrounded with gilded laurel leaves and intertwined cherubs . |
| 9 | She realized she was fiddling with her finger-socket as she so often did , but it was a useful habit now and she did n't stop . |
| 10 | He looked away and she said the word for him , anticipating him without quite knowing how , as she so often did . |
| 11 | Glenda Grower stood a little aside , as she so often did — splendid , cool , apart . |
| 12 | Louis 's use of baptismal ritual to suggest his own imperial status vis-à-vis Harald was modelled on Byzantine practice , and Louis was seeking , as his eastern counterparts so often did , to promote imperial interests through intervention in the dynastic conflicts of a barbarian people . |
| 13 | Then she retraced her steps , pausing , as she so often did , when she reached the landing . |