Example sentences of "have so often [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the story begins Marco , a strong , handsome lad of twelve , is beginning to see more meaning in the oath he has so often sworn on his father 's sword , brought out from its hiding-place under the floorboards of their lodging : |
| 2 | This is what has so often happened in the past ; and although the Chancellor has made it clear that low inflation remains his goal , now that the country is out of the ERM there is not a great deal that he can do to prevent it . |
| 3 | This is what has so often happened in the past ; and though the Chancellor has made it clear that low inflation remains his goal , now that the country is out of the ERM there is not a great deal that he can do to prevent it . |
| 4 | To give me what you 'd so often described to me . ’ |
| 5 | The presbytery needed a cheerful touch , he had so often hinted at this . |
| 6 | When he did not speak , but just jerked his head as if a fly had buzzed near his ear and irritated him , when he did not greet her , not even by name , let alone with the caressing words she had so often uttered in her games of make-believe , Rosa began , murmuringly , ‘ I did n't know when to come down , I wanted to be sure no one was awake … . ’ |
| 7 | At the Hospedaje Lisboa where Dana stayed — ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — I looked up at his window as I had so often done on those lonely days and nights he spent away from me . |
| 8 | His response , echoing what he had so often done on the battlefield , was first to sit tight and then to try to turn an apparently negative situation to his advantage . |
| 9 | As he had so often done during the Civil War , he sat behind the battle lines , watching through his binoculars as the two sides fought it out . |
| 10 | In the year July 1797 to June 1798 Coleridge produced most of the verse for which he is now remembered , including Kubla Khan , Christabel , and The Ancient Mariner — for which Wordsworth suggested the albatross and the theme of the guilty wanderer which had so often appeared in his own recent work . |
| 11 | He remembered Hause Point , he remembered the abyss he had so often fallen into . |
| 12 | She was suffering as he must have suffered ; and if he knew her pain might he not come to her , as she had so often come to him , gently reminding her that despair was an unavoidable but essential ordeal , of the quest ? |