adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
call
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Lawyers, on the other hand, often call for changing even settled practice in midgame.
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She's got an ear for birding and often calls them to her.
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This type of exchange is often called by anthropologists gift exchange.
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Memory for motor skills is often called procedural memory.
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The temporary molars, or caps as they are often called , usually present no problems and are relatively soft.
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Stuffed hard-boiled eggs, most often called deviled eggs, can be spicy, plain or very exotic.
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The kind of associative learning shown by rats and pigeons in these experiments is often called conditioning.
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When I write of consciousness I shall mean what is often called self-consciousness, rather than awareness of sensations or perceptions.
feel
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Parents often feel helpless, knowing that all the cuddles in the world won't stop the tears.
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I often felt more inspired writing in a tearoom than in the newsroom.
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Scene tumbles upon scene, without any sense of the disjuncture one so often feels in lesser writers.
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Although I often feel bad because of Roy, I tell myself I can handle it.
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I have not often coldness with you, sweet heart; yet I often feel that you teach me to love you.
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People in despair very often feel that there are only two roads open to them in life.
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Of course that is a word that I often feel evades the issue.
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Though she hates confrontation, she often feels she must speak out.
find
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The drop-out rate is far lower, and patients often find it more acceptable.
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Sometimes the brawls erupted in public; the future candidate often found himself in the back of a patrol car.
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He believes that a writer will often find himself through exposure to some other writer.
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These pretty little fish are quite often found in empty conch shells.
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We have often found people will nod and agree to the principles but never put them into practice.
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The band often finds a radio-ravaged fan after a show who expresses surprise and delight in the retro sound.
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She quite often found herself thinking Alix's thoughts.
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And if we do not have the right drugs for a particular adjustment, research on orthodox lines will often find one.
seem
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History dominates this issue, and what is fascinating is the way themes so often seem to connect up.
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In fact, the gene-altered products often seem little different from ordinary varieties when lined up on store shelves.
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Either way, the free sections often seem to outstay their welcome.
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But who was counting when the performances often seemed to transcend national borders?
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In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world.
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Pregnancy often seems unreal, and something which will not happen to them.
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The Black Dog are at the forefront of a pack which often seems to have no desire to come out of the woodwork.
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No, Minter was motivated more by the unreasoning malice which individual achievement seemed often to inspire in others.
use
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They are increasingly sophisticated machines, often using high quality aluminium and titanium alloys, spin offs from the aerospace industry.
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These high-dividend stocks are often used as an alternative to bonds.
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Companies often use details of education to plot out salary curves and promotion prospects.
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The garden was often used by the target for a short relaxing walk.
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Dark green arugula, often used as a stand-alone salad green, has a peppery and slightly bitter flavor.
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Yellow ochre is a colour I often use for both undercoats and overpainting, having a good semi-transparent quality.
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But while making these treats, questions about ingredients, substitutions or the best pan to use often crop up.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
do sth once too often
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The kids rang Brant's doorbell once too often, and he reported them to the police.
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But not Luke Denner - he's humiliated me once too often!
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He'd said it once too often, and this time she'd taken him at his word.
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He got into trouble once too often and wound up in continuation school.
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I can only assume she tried once too often to enter the nest, as the female died during the night.
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It had failed him in a crisis and that was once too often.
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Maybe she just turned him down once too often.
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One of these people had looked in my direction once too often, passed by once again just a little too slowly.
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Until, that is, it lived up to its original name once too often!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Have you ever been to the China Moon Café?" "Yes -- we go there quite often ."
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Dad wasn't often angry so I knew something terrible must have happened.
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I often see her walking past with the children on the way to school.
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I have a cell phone, but I don't use it very often .
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It's not often I get the chance to go to the movies.
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It's not often that you see a grass snake these days -- they've become quite rare.
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Rosi often works till 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening.
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The information is all there, but it's often difficult to find it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Book publishers have created Internet sites before, but they often are heavily promotional, resembling order catalogs.
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He often got me out of bed, late on an evening, to run an errand.
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I often caught myself staring into a mirror, wondering who that was staring back.
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In modern mills, grain is stored in silos which are often separate from the mill and near to a bulk intake point.
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Institutions often have their own expectations, and provided all are agreed within an institution the teacher may draw on them.
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Investors often repurchase those shares during the first few days of the new year.
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The veins are often only a metre or two wide.
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They serve this function probably more often than the one they were created for.