Example sentences of "we often [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( We often sang in St Mary 's , Ipswich , my bass a good foil to Benjamin 's tenor . |
| 2 | Chang lived just a couple of doors along from me at Backyards , sharing a house with Barton Lynch , so we often ran into each other on the early morning surf check . |
| 3 | We often slept under the stars . |
| 4 | We often began with antipasto : a selection of home-cured salumi . |
| 5 | During those days , we often prayed for our friends in Africa ; but it seemed unlikely that I could ever be trusted to return . |
| 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 went to the house of Don Cattabianchi , the priest of Santa Croce , a very eccentric but equally intelligent and learned man . |
| 9 | We often went up the hill from The Gantry , for a stroll , you know . |
| 10 | When we were in London , we often went in the evenings to the Mermaid Tavern in Cheapside . |
| 11 | In our explorations , ostensibly in search of good compositions to sketch , we often came upon the nuns : a solitary sister on her knees in front of a grotto , a nervous magpie secreting days off purgatory , would fly up ; a group of novices , disturbed roller-skating or playing the guitar , would look to their novice-mistress for permission to accept a boiled sweet . |
| 12 | We often read without conscious purpose . |
| 13 | WE often read of uncaring stars so it was a joy to learn that Sophia Loren had bailed out her favourite waiter after he was sacked for taking time off to care for his sick wife . |
| 14 | Even in those days , the South Tyne had good runs of salmon and we often stood by the weir at Haltwhistle in September , watching salmon fighting their way upstream . |
| 15 | Orkney waters are warmed by the Gulf Streams and we often swam at Skail . |
| 16 | We often fantasised about murdering him , too — as painfully as possible . |
| 17 | I do n't want to give the impression that we often talked about Shanti 's origins ; we only did so when she obviously wanted to . |
| 18 | ‘ We often spoke to her on the telephone , ’ said Mrs Over . |
| 19 | The Lord Chamberlain was a very important man , close to the Queen , and we often put on plays for the Queen 's court , and in the houses of the great lords of England . |
| 20 | In Salamanca we often smiled at each other as we passed along a street called Street of the Two Poets — or was it a little plaza ? |
| 21 | We often cried with pain . |