Example sentences of "[noun sg] always [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jon Pepper always struck me as a very proficient newsman . |
| 2 | Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours . |
| 3 | All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’ |
| 4 | To cope with the traditional use of variable hours , so that the period of daylight always comprised twelve , Andronicus is thought to have used a system that is described in detail by his Roman contemporary , the architect Vitruvius . |
| 5 | Her action always embarrassed him , but as it was unobtrusive he doubted if anyone else noticed it . |
| 6 | This term always had this broader sense until , in the mid-nineteenth century , it began to have a capital M and a personified sense restricted to the episcopate , or more often just the papacy , as holders of teaching authority ( see Congar , 1976 ; Hill , 1988 , pp. 75–88 ) . |
| 7 | The Royal Air Force always had two salaried artists at any one time , and one of these was a portraitist . |
| 8 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 9 | The substance of one interview always conflicted with the next . |
| 10 | Until 1980 the vote always went against television , although the margin was narrow . |
| 11 | But then the starving thesp always had more street cred than the vouchered … |
| 12 | Although they met several times a day and were on good terms , the chief superintendent always felt uncomfortable in the commander 's presence : he was an earnest , church-going man who never laughed , never drank , never swore and rarely showed emotion . |
| 13 | Glenn Rainey opened the scoring for the home team after minutes but a more experienced Lurgan side always had the edge and goals from Kennedy , Williamson and Smith sealed their victory . |
| 14 | Keep tucked in behind the side always said to you , the bloke in the front , mate , he does all the donkey work , picking up drags you round do n't it ? |
| 15 | Kindness always moved her more than anything else . |
| 16 | The fear always came when I was about halfway down the path . |
| 17 | The town was packed with carts and horses for the Great Killer always kept Calais well fortified . |
| 18 | Tenacious tackling and a great display from Peter Canavan at full forward , ensured the Ranch always held the upper hand . |
| 19 | It could n't have been Gloria , for Gloria knew that Dot always slept in her vest and knickers . |
| 20 | The GST-pou[c] fusion protein always gave two specific bands in GMSA . |
| 21 | The blood always belonged to God , for ‘ I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls … whosoever eateth any manner of blood , I will set my face against that soul … and will cut him off from among his people ’ ( Lev . |
| 22 | Liza 's car always appeared to be the one which had preferential treatment and although John Carrow , neither approving of nor trusting any lady to tinker about with a machine , begged them all to leave such things as cleaning carburettors to him , it was always Liza 's that got attended to first . |
| 23 | Her bedroom always felt too big at night . |
| 24 | The human figure always played a much more important part in the work of Picasso than in that of Braque , and Picasso looked with particular interest at Cézanne 's figure work . |
| 25 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |
| 26 | In later years they were edited by Africans , though European officials in the public Relations Department always had the final say . |
| 27 | The Review always stood outside that lay literary world , or at least emphasized its academic distinction from it , and is in fact better seen as an enterprise typical of a new phase of academic English described by Gross in the following extract : |
| 28 | The likeliest alternative always seemed to be worse . |
| 29 | It was as if he were a sheet of paper torn into many little pieces which she felt she had to cover entirely with her hand , but could not , however hard she tried , because the wind always blew a few of the pieces from between her fingers or from the edge of her palm . |
| 30 | She had none of that innocence or boundless enthusiasm that the Princesse always saw as the stamp of the American girl . |