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Example sentences for "often have"

  • They then make for their feeding grounds, browse throughout the night, drink again just before sunrise, often have a roll in a mud-hole, and then make their way to the place where they intend to lie up for the day.

  • Also, when the wind has been blowing hard, often have I seen His Royal Highness knocking over driven grouse and partridges and high-rocketing pheasants in first-rate workmanlike style.

  • Often have I felt that I would lose my reason forever, but after a period of madness, nature would be merciful and restore me my lost senses.

  • Often have I prayed for death, and as often, when I thought the final hour had come, have I shrunk back from the mysterious shadow in which flesh has no more motion.

  • Often have I pressed my hands tightly over my mouth, fearing that I would scream, and as often would a low groan sound in my blistered throat, the pent up echo of a long maniacal wail.

  • Often have I passed an hour in boring the unfortunate gunmakers to death by my suggestions for various improvements in rifles and guns, which, as I was not a purchaser, must have been extremely edifying.

  • Often have I passed a quiet hour on a calm evening when the sun has sunk low on the horizon, and lie cool breeze has stolen across the water, refreshing all animal life.

  • Often have I halted on my journey to ride around and admire the prodigious height and girth of these trees.

  • Such, as nearly as we can describe it, is the local situation and appearance of Govan at the present day; for often, often have we been there in our younger years, and never shall we forget the happy hours we have spent in it.

  • Often have I observed him playing the part of a captain, and drilling the laddies of the village into squares and lines, like a little army; and as often have I heard him say, that he would be nothing but a sodger.

  • Often have we despised the contemptible and weak spirit which could induce so many almost newly arrived Germans to change fine sounding and easily enunciable names, into vulgar, snobbish appellatives for which no child would thank them.

  • Often have I remembered dear Sarah Tuckett's encouraging words, "But through all, and underneath all, will be the everlasting Arms.

  • Often have I admired not only His great love as shown in the main features of redemption, but, if such a word is allowable, His minute loving kindness.

  • Oh, often have I wasted this substance in a very short time; but the Lord has reckoned better than I in my self-confidence.

  • Often have I asked the poor Catholics in my employ why such and such days were holy days?

  • Often have I seen a fine child of five or six years old, astride of a saw-log, riding down the current, with as much glee as if it were a real steed he bestrode.

  • Often have I wandered from his presence and sought pasture among the swine, but my Shepherd has ever drawn or driven me back.

  • Often hast thou chastened, often have we confessed, often resolved that we would walk more softly, more tenderly, more circumspectly before thee.

  • The points of structure, in which the embryos of widely different animals of the same class resemble each other, often have no direct relation to their conditions of existence.

  • We shall then, also, see how it is that the breeds so often have a somewhat monstrous character.

  • Often have we heard it said, "I had rather hear Father Ballou pray than any other person; it seems almost impossible not to follow him in every thought and expression.

  • Often have we heard him praise and dilate upon these, when, a mere boy, we have travelled with him upon his various missions into the country.

  • I could not so often have a yarn with my old followers as I used to when I was a midshipman, but I frequently exchanged words with them, and never failed to take them on any expedition on which I was sent.

  • Often have I seen a mule or donkey stumble and fall beneath its enormous load, unable to raise itself, till its master with blows and curses comes to lend a hand.

  • Often have I been awakened in the night by the sound of the caravan bells, and for a moment thought they were the bells of the dear old church in Devonshire.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "often have" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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