Example sentences of "often [vb past] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | These doubts , hard to pin down , because reason easily disposed of them all , crystallised around the fact that Comrade Andrew too often smelled of drink ; she could not bring herself to criticise him for his partiality to the goose-girl , because she had learned so long ago and so thoroughly simply to switch off in this area . |
2 | For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds . |
3 | Their relations were always cordial and , in his memoirs , Hedilla recounts how they often talked of politics . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |