Example sentences of "[vb past] always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was because Pound behaved always in the spirit of this remark that he could not fail to offend Englishmen of the type of Beerbohm and Bowra , and that he continues to offend their likes and their successors ( in all social classes ) at the present day , as , for instance , his confrere T.S . |
| 2 | She was absolutely convinced that what she liked other people wanted too ; a canny instinct which she used always as her guiding principle and from which no one could shake her . |
| 3 | Zack drove always at the proper speed , his companions upright and silent in their seats . |
| 4 | Rare orchids bloomed unseen and the wind came always from the east . |
| 5 | It was , moreover , a hope which the French encouraged from time to time although what was achieved seemed always to be less than what was promised . |
| 6 | I seemed always to be letting him down one way or another . |
| 7 | She seemed always to be squinting into the sun , or shielding her face with her hand , or hidden by a straw hat or something . |
| 8 | The indiction was a cycle of fifteen years computed always from AD312 , and in practice there were three ways to calculate the opening date . |
| 9 | It has to be emphasised that the committee worked always in the shadow of the law : Section 132 of the Public Health Act 1875 had said that any expenses incurred by a local authority in maintaining in a hospital a patient who is not a pauper , should be deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the local authority , and could be recovered from him at any time within six months after his discharge from the hospital . |
| 10 | Herschel worked always by himself , while Hubble worked in professional observatories that were the world 's finest for his kind of astronomy . |
| 11 | That is quite an assignment for any historian in under 500 pages , and it is not Sir Ian 's fault if the reader often feels short-changed by being obliged to travel through so large a landscape guided always by the same question : what was the role of ‘ popular violence ’ in all this ? |
| 12 | ‘ Have faith in the future , my princes , ’ she had concluded , ‘ and be of good cheer — you are your father 's sons , and he who laughed always at adversity would have been proud of you . |
| 13 | And Ma , who always agreed with him ( who did n't dare do otherwise ) , stout , soft Ma , who should have been a refuge , a lap to sit upon , a bosom to weep on , but who herself looked always in need of comfort — crumpled , creased , forever on the verge of tears : |
| 14 | Kentigern 's own example was powerful : he went always on foot , lived temperately , went into cold water each morning even in winter , lay at night in a stone coffin with ashes for a mattress , and yet he was a man of business , his parishes grew , churches were established the country over , and always in one hand he held a plain pontifical staff , in the other a psalter . ’ |
| 15 | She heard so well , and sang always with the orchestra . |
| 16 | We finally gave up , agreeing that it was perhaps an old Dutch ritual performed always on the last night of a holiday . |
| 17 | These conditions , difficult to sustain , led occasionally to a great deal of embarrassment , mixed always with a compensationary dose of fun and good humour , and sometimes followed by the communication of useful information which was none the less pleasant because of the piquancy incident to a little merriment and unexpected light of knowledge . ’ |
| 18 | Deems was a soft and highly coloured man who spoke always in a low voice . |
| 19 | Henceforth he spoke always in a monotonous whisper … |
| 20 | Victorians , who had yet to discover the stiff upper lip and the view that religion had always to be a serious matter , were passionate people who expressed their feelings freely and often loudly . |
| 21 | You had always to be on a level piece of ground , you see , with no rise whatsoever and we always had that ; we had an excellent stretch of green sward a short distance from the school , and we gathered there . |
| 22 | Gray had stated that the painter 's view of a landscape had always to be from a low point . |
| 23 | No solution was found : within a few years the European powers were at war again , essentially over the question whether Spain and her colonies were going to pass into the hands of a relation of the King of France or a relation of the Holy Roman Emperor ; in the end they passed into the French line of descent , and in the eighteenth century policy towards France had always to be conducted in the light of the possibility that the French and Spanish government might ally for war . |
| 24 | Marriage had always to be delayed until a suitable standing was achieved among middle-class and respectable poor ( Macfarlane 1986 ) . |
| 25 | I found I had always to be looking at her feet . |
| 26 | It seems that femininity had always to be ‘ cultivated , achieved and preserved , while masculinity could be left to look after itself ’ . |
| 27 | So the paths of light rays in the event horizon had always to be moving parallel to , or away from , each other . |
| 28 | At the same time , education , which had always in fact been a political matter , if only because of the vast sums of public money spent on it , became increasingly and more obviously political because of the politicization of local government . |
| 29 | What he had loved about Sylvie had always in part been his inability to pin her down , to capture her . |
| 30 | He had always like Reg Littlejohn , who was a widely respected river pilot . |