Example sentences of "often [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We often got into trouble with foreign seamen that came there and they started making up to the Chinamen 's wives . |
| 2 | In Howard 's time , the main problem in respect of remuneration was that the gaoler was expected to generate his own income , by what often amounted to extortion from those in his charge or their family and friends . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With the temperament and much of the left-handed style of Larry Gomes who so often acted as foil to the dynamic stroke-makers of the early 1980s , Adams moved from 23 to 79 before running out of partners . |
| 6 | Those who came later , more hurriedly , often arrived on foot with only their clothes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 10 | She often went by train to some distant party beyond the reach of horses . |
| 11 | 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 . |