Example sentences of "often [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , while Darwin often made use of Gould 's observations on the characteristics and distribution of certain birds in his Origin of Species , Gould never broadcast his role as one of Darwin 's sources . |
| 2 | Illegal migrants who hide from authorities often became victims of crime or criminals , he said . |
| 3 | Illegal migrants who hide from authorities often became victims of crime or criminals , he said . |
| 4 | He often sought recreation in fencing , wrestling , running , jumping and throwing the javelin , and he did it to the utmost of his strength and skill . " |
| 5 | As she grew up she often visited relations in Ireland and she developed a lifelong romantic passion for that country , originating in her childhood adoration of Burgage . |
| 6 | He often cracked jokes with patients to relax them , his easy camaraderie taking the edge off their fear without in any way compromising their faith in him . |
| 7 | She often drove errands for Lawler . |
| 8 | Since the gentry had tended to buy and sell land without reference to the administrative cohesion of the parcels they exchanged , two or more communes often existed side by side in a single centre of rural population . |
| 9 | If Ferguson is really searching for someone to put the finishing touch to his team 's chances and not his own , he would be better offering the job to one of these often maligned stabbers-in of trifles . |
| 10 | I often watched Michael at work in his shaping room . |
| 11 | In the past , raising productivity often went hand in hand with increased production ; now the emphasis will be on encouraging practices which will reduce costs , save energy , improve living and working conditions , protect and improve the environment and raise the quality and value of products leaving the farm . |
| 12 | Ceauşescu knew that greed and gullibility often went hand in hand . |
| 13 | Local networks often took advantage of kinship ties . |
| 14 | Important land transactions probably often took place at meetings , and charter witness lists are valuable evidence on the king 's major followers , and , if enough survive , the careers of bishops , abbots , ealdormen and thegns can to some extent be reconstructed from them . |
| 15 | The use of labour exchanges to encourage vocational guidance and industrial training would , he argued , have three consequences : it would reduce risks of individual ‘ maladjustment ’ , which often meant waste of abilities and even unemployment ; it would adjust the flow of labour between trades ; and it would discourage ‘ blind-alley ’ occupations , which he saw as not only demoralizing , but also as likely to lead to ‘ a fresh point of stress in industry — the transition to a new occupation at manhood ’ . |
| 16 | As a result many Marxists have had to look outside Marxism to explain primitive societies , so they often imported theories of history from the anthropologists whom they used as sources . |
| 17 | He supported the Government , he was loyal , but there too often appeared shades of difference which set him apart as a challenger . |
| 18 | A. V. Dicey , the prominent nineteenth-century jurist and by no means an extreme anti-feminist , considered that while distinctions of rights founded on sex often gave rise to injustice ‘ they have this in their favour — they rest upon a difference not created by social conventions or by human prejudice and selfishness , or by accidental circumstances … which split society into classes , but by the nature of things ’ . |
| 19 | Fortunately some soldiers felt real responsibility for their officers and often gave gifts in kind if they did n't have any spare cash . |
| 20 | Announcements on college noticeboards often gave details of students who had been involved in ‘ inappropriate conduct ’ and dismissed from their studies . |
| 21 | Dustin and Anne often had meals with Colin Welland and his wife , or sometimes with Susan George and her boyfriend , the young actor Simon MacCorkindale , whom she was soon to marry . |
| 22 | As a result we often had differences of opinion . |
| 23 | Natural parents often had access to children guaranteed under a court order and foster parents had to be committed to support for ‘ parental responsibility ’ , which could cause difficulties , said Miss Marion Lowe , the association 's director . |
| 24 | Chopper Harris , on the other hand , was a dullard who had a big heart where his friends were concerned , and it was he who often stood cups of tea or a pint for his friends . |