Example sentences of "often [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds . |
| 2 | Nationalized industries created additional difficulties ; volume planning often led to overcapacity and excessive output , with huge losses having to be written off . |
| 3 | Miscarriages procured in this way often led to death or malformed births . |
| 4 | Jasper often went to school but nearly as often did not . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | Accordingly the time was changed : I went in at 9 p.m. and often stayed until midnight or past . |