Example sentences of "he often [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |
| 2 | For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds . |
| 3 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |
| 4 | She found him uncouth and dirty and he often smelt of abattoirs and of the chicken carcases or sides of beef he had been painting . |
| 5 | Yet the list of play-off records he set — .650 batting average , 13 hits , 24 total bases — fails to convey the full magnitude of his achievement , coming in as he often did at moments of unbelievable pressure , and usually delivering the vital hit . |
| 6 | He often did at times of emotional crisis . |
| 7 | Orrin Tunstall reverted to being a Westerner , as he often did in moments of crisis . |
| 8 | He was crying with delight , as he often did in anticipation , when his engine started to cough , and he sailed slap into a rocky cascade . |
| 9 | He often spoke to Strakhov of his ‘ pride as an author ’ in his creative foreshadowing of facts , and to A. N. Maikov he enlarged : |
| 10 | Now it was worth five times what he paid for it , a fact on which he often dwelt with satisfaction . |
| 11 | From about 1909 he was a friend of ( Sir ) John Beazley [ q.v. ] , with whom he once combined to buy a Sienese picture they had discovered in a dealer 's ; and he often travelled in Italy to look at pictures , sometimes in the company of his friend Scholfield . |