Example sentences of "often [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Julia seemed to take on a new lease of life and now that the weather was improving she often walked to Carrie 's house or to see Bridie and her family . |
| 32 | She walked to the shops and back , sometimes walked through the back streets , once almost as far as Marcus 's flat ( but did not dare to go near it ) , avoiding the noisy King 's Road , and the embankment where Jack often walked with Alison , and as she knew , farther east where Ludens walked with Marcus . |
| 33 | Mairi was furious when after a while Luch started to take long to return with the bucket , but it did her no good ; the wee lass often vanished for hours at a time , in spite of the scoldings she got when she returned late . |
| 34 | We often began with antipasto : a selection of home-cured salumi . |
| 35 | The day often began with people dropping in for breakfast , as they had done at Hamilton Terrace . |
| 36 | " If I ca n't have you , " she said aloud , for she often conversed with Timothy in that one sided manner , " then I wo n't have anyone . |
| 37 | Early air travellers often flew for adventure , not just speed , and some travellers today , who do not have to cram a two-week break into a busy year , have gone back to earlier forms of transport which give them a far sharper sense of going places . |
| 38 | One of the functions of the external stimulus is to promote an entry of external calcium , often mediated by InsP 3 , to give the primer calcium ( Ca 2+ ) which charges up the internal stores . |
| 39 | The plans of the groups enable them to be identified with those shown on large-scale Ordnance Survey maps , except for those sites subsequently ploughed out , which often survived as ring-ditches . |
| 40 | Though much scholastic research and numerous books were written on the subject , the attack was only uncomfortably alluded to and often circumscribed in Hollywood 's efforts to cinematically present the war . |
| 41 | Controversy aside , the fact that Dykstra was called upon so often vouched for Rangers ' ascendancy but the Hateley/McCoist goal machine seemed to have developed a mechanical fault . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Enya 's grandparents are buried there , and she often talked to Roma about her feelings that her grandparents watched over her and guided her still . |
| 44 | Their relations were always cordial and , in his memoirs , Hedilla recounts how they often talked of politics . |
| 45 | Erm very common , you know s seventy three , twenty five , eighteen , erm they very often started at sort of seventy three or something like that . |
| 46 | Hence Behaviouralism , the version of a more general behaviourism specific to International Relations , which we shall meet in the next chapter , is commonly spoken of as a Positive approach and often contrasted with Realism on this score . |
| 47 | ( We often sang in St Mary 's , Ipswich , my bass a good foil to Benjamin 's tenor . |
| 48 | They often went on excursions , always talking away nineteen to the dozen . |
| 49 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 50 | Jasper often went to school but nearly as often did not . |
| 51 | Neighbour Linda Moore told the court she often went to Coventry to escape the sound of Jim Reeves , whose hits in the 1960s included Distant Drums , It Hurts So Much and I Love You Because . |
| 52 | And on Sunday afternoon I often went to Kidlington , to eat large teas and remember another world . |
| 53 | One of these smart socialites who belied her appearance was Elaine Blond ( then Elaine Laski ) who often went to Harwich to escort parties of children to London . |
| 54 | She often went by train to some distant party beyond the reach of horses . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 57 | Their application to such industries as spinning and weaving in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries often resulted in inventions suited to the circumstances of petty producers : The new machines required little capital and a family-sized labor force , and hence were well suited to the perpetuation of cottage industry . |
| 58 | Making them pay cash too often resulted in debt , followed by embarrassment and loss of custom . |
| 59 | This ‘ affected primarily the redistribution of personnel at higher levels without reaching the heart of the problems … and … often resulted in incoherencies , contradictions and duplications ’ ( CEFE 1984 : 59 ) . |
| 60 | During 1989 student demands became more radical , and demonstrations against the government often resulted in violence . |