Example sentences of "[pers pn] often [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Classic lighting is ideal for creating atmosphere in traditional-style bedrooms , although if you often read in bed you may need to opt for a more practical design |
| 2 | Another factor which made Russian foreign policy different in kind from that of the other Great Powers in 1880 was that , like Great Britain ( with whom she often came into conflict over them ) , she had great extra-European interests , both in the Far East and central Asia , where her territories , influence and commerce had been growing steadily for twenty years . |
| 3 | She often went by train to some distant party beyond the reach of horses . |
| 4 | She went out of the room longing to slam the door as she often did at home , but she did n't dare to here . |
| 5 | We often began with antipasto : a selection of home-cured salumi . |
| 6 | ‘ We often played at home . ’ |
| 7 | We often got into trouble with foreign seamen that came there and they started making up to the Chinamen 's wives . |
| 8 | We often cried with pain . |
| 9 | They often suffered from vaginismus , but they invariably praised their husbands for being ‘ exceptionally kind ’ , passive , totally understanding and ‘ so good as not to bother me ’ . |
| 10 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
| 11 | He assured her that he was unhappily married , never had sex with his wife though they slept in the same bed , and that they often thought of divorce . |
| 12 | Their relations were always cordial and , in his memoirs , Hedilla recounts how they often talked of politics . |
| 13 | For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now it was worth five times what he paid for it , a fact on which he often dwelt with satisfaction . |
| 16 | It often came at night as I subconsciously relived the tensions of the previous evening 's crises . |