Example sentences of "always [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He does n't move , then suddenly his head gives a small jerk forward and his eyes buck wide open , the way they always used to when he 'd make some incoherent claim to lineage to the gods . |
| 32 | ( She always used to , of course , when I was n't here , but she seems to forget that . |
| 33 | Well there was a bit there where they always used to camp . |
| 34 | ‘ Girl , never doubt but he 'll come back to you whole and hungry , as he always used to from the butts or the wrestling when you were fretting over his lateness . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ I was coming home with three lovely black horses which we always used on the road ; and I used to glory in trimming them up , because they wore the worsted — red , white and blue — and they used to look lovely . |
| 36 | Then , out of his overcoat pocket he produced a safety razor-blade , with which he sharpened the pencil he always used for his often indecipherable , cramped little scribbles — a sign , a psychiatrist later told me , of someone wanting to attract as little attention as possible , as in the case of Robert Walser . |
| 37 | The photograph she always used as a bookmark fluttered out of it . |
| 38 | What I always found with with lumbar aches was erm putting the knee up sideways across your erm . |
| 39 | Baldwin thought the questions somewhat unrealistically phrased , but he nonetheless realized that many of those organizing and participating in the ballot were part of that middle , public-spirited opinion which he always regarded as an important part of his natural constituency . |
| 40 | The toisechs ' and mormaers ' wives and daughters and sisters who always moved with the court would be waiting , and eager for news . |
| 41 | ‘ We always tried to be one step ahead , but it 's almost its own pigeon hole now . |
| 42 | He always tried to be reasonable and logical in his arguments , but he knew reason and logic would be wasted on Walter Carew . |
| 43 | ‘ But we always tried to be more sympathetic than most , and went out of our way to work with the people who wanted to use our stuff . |
| 44 | Simon is a devoted dad who always tried to be around as much as possible . |
| 45 | Well direct sales you you know I always tried to sort of stay away from companies that you know had a reputation for that . |
| 46 | We always tried in ICI to offer people jobs elsewhere in the company whenever we could . |
| 47 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 48 | The parents agreed that the priority problem was temper tantrums which always occurred after refusal of Joanne 's demands . |
| 49 | We always promised to be at each other 's wedding , and if I do n't turn up she 'll be upset . |
| 50 | I always helped with the sausages . |
| 51 | Uncle Walter always phoned in the evening . |
| 52 | It seemed that he was extra attentive to me , and I heard via the grapevine that he always referred to me as ‘ the little Waaf with the starry eyes ’ . |
| 53 | We always referred to them as those ladies of the stage . |
| 54 | ‘ In later years , ’ Philip wrote , ‘ he always referred to me as his father . |
| 55 | A very fine thing , and you know until er until the day I left in nineteen forty two they always referred to these chaps in the forties like say I was , er a as being er , Ooh he 's a man . |
| 56 | He always referred to Saeed as his son , never ours . |
| 57 | Yeah they always stopped by |
| 58 | He always rose to such occasions with confident decisiveness and calm authority . |
| 59 | Morale always rose after a struggle ; I would never have to go over the same ground again . |
| 60 | He must have been very shortsighted for I remember the way in which he always peered through his very thick spectacles . |