Example sentences of "often [verb] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politicians often lose touch with the people because they lack intimate constituency contact . |
| 2 | Unlike Dudley he was well aware that merchants , a fast growing class , were not segregated from the gentry by an unbridgeable gulf , but ‘ often change estate with gentlemen , as gentlemen doo with them by a mutuall conuersion of the one with the other , . |
| 3 | Certainly the intermediate standing of many of these men is plain to see ; the alternating qualifications of £10 in lands and £100 in goods seem specifically designed to cater for small-town merchants and the less affluent London ones , conceding statutory confirmation of the observation that they ‘ often change estate with gentlemen ’ . |
| 4 | Firstly , they often recruit subjects with a high risk of the disorder under study so as to minimise the number of subjects needed to show an effect . |
| 5 | In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped . |
| 6 | And it 's trouble with a capital T because it often involves tangles with his arch enemy Dinsdale the dog ! |
| 7 | In recent years he had often carried cameras with any number of attachments . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dealers often mix ecstasy with other substances which can be lethal . |
| 10 | Although we often mounted exercises with our local port investigation units with varying degrees of success , our access to reliable information was limited . |
| 11 | Of these the blood film often revealed erythrocytes with multiple pits unlike in the control group where this was unusual . |
| 12 | ‘ Men in their mid-forties often seek reassurance with younger girls ’ , it said . |
| 13 | Very young children often enjoy play with improvised materials . |
| 14 | Wickham asked casually whether the same person often supplied Wainfleet with stories and was told he did . |
| 15 | I 'd often see birds with gut or wire wrapped around their necks or wings , or looking ill because , as I discovered later , they 'd swallowed lead shot which the anglers used to weight their lines . |
| 16 | I do n't know about you though , it 's a text that I have quite often had difficulty with and it 's And again I say rejoice , rejoice rejoice and again I say rejoice . |
| 17 | He had often had tea with girls from his workshop . |
| 18 | However , because benefit is withdrawn as income rises , means-tested benefits often confront claimants with a marginal tax rate in excess of 80 per cent on any additional income . |
| 19 | Blake often stretches concepts with contentious boundaries into diaphanous holdalls . |
| 20 | Some advocates of a DG also want him ( or her ) to give the Institute a higher public profile , and they often draw analogies with the CBI . |
| 21 | Fear often played tricks with my perception and now it seemed as if I was losing my grip of reality . |
| 22 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 23 | Mr Weizman , who will succeed Chaim Herzog on 13 May , has often ruffled feathers with his outspoken style during nearly three decades in the military and two decades in politics . |
| 24 | These writings appealed essentially to a generation of students bored with academic life and attracted by the street credibility of the Situationists , and often provided students with the dubious pleasure of being flattered and insulted at the same time . |
| 25 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 26 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 27 | Dad often helps folks with their gardens and he is going to ask them to give a donation to Camphill Development Fund instead of giving him a present . |
| 28 | People will often play games with their emotions , perhaps in the hope of gaining sympathy , or confirming their particular view of other people or of life generally . |
| 29 | Interpretations which see hooliganism as a conscious protest against poor urban conditions and employment prospects , though often finding favour with politicians , are facile . |
| 30 | Where woman-centred feminists address class specifically , they often equate femaleness with an oppressed biological ‘ sex class ’ , set up working-class women as the embodiment of this class , and finger middle-class women as sell-outs to the male sex class . |