Example sentences of "always [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 2 | She pretended ( Caro was sure it was pretence ) to be particularly worried about the two poor fatherless children , and always asked after them . |
| 3 | If , as happened more frequently , she did not , she let her view be known , even though it almost always led to a quarrel . |
| 4 | I knew it by the way their eyes glowed green and yellow in the dark and because they always hopped in my direction in spite of how much I hated them . |
| 5 | They always passed at about the same time , right after midnight , and it was something he liked to watch , the way other people watch sunsets or the ocean . |
| 6 | He appreciated how difficult it was for me ‘ to give way ’ , what a wrench it was for someone who always operated on his own to cooperate with an act he neither understood nor , at that time , actively sought . |
| 7 | He knew that he always operated at full efficiency when driven by anger ; from now on , he was suddenly sure , he was in control of this bloody conference . |
| 8 | However hard he tried , he somehow always failed to be the son she wanted ; the son she truly deserved . |
| 9 | It always made for a grand fightfinisher . |
| 10 | Lady Selvedge then rose and made her little speech — the one she always made on these occasions , for the ‘ cause ’ , whether Church , Conservative Party or District Nursing Association , was always a good one and it was safe to urge her hearers to spend just a little more than they thought they could afford , however relative the amount might be . |
| 11 | Because of our volunteer system and our love of the job I think we always succeeded in this aim . |
| 12 | I was walking across the garden after breakfast , enjoying the clear wintry air , when suddenly my body was again torn by those indescribable feelings which I always experienced after a dose of the drug . |
| 13 | He named it Stegman ( a steg is a male goose ) and it spent most of the summer on the reservoir but always wintered at West Birk Hatt . |
| 14 | In his ‘ A Study of English poetry ’ , which ran in The English Review from March to June 1912 , Newbolt refers to Pound as ‘ a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest ’ . |
| 15 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 16 | I am , I always read like that |
| 17 | Nevertheless , visiting the Company was an important occasion in Mary O'Dell 's calendar ; when her husband was the landlord , she always fussed over him beforehand , ironing his best shirt , starching the collar , sponging his blue serge suit and tucking a clean handkerchief into his top pocket . |
| 18 | He had been about four years old , and although he was younger than my brother , they always got on very well together and were heartbroken when the time came for them to part . |
| 19 | I always got on well with Paul . |
| 20 | Always got like that when he sat still for a long time . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 23 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 24 | His aunt and sister-in-law always lived in Cambridge . |
| 25 | ONCE he had left the modern flat where he lived with his father in Johannesburg , John Cranko always lived in old houses . |
| 26 | Other aromas conjure up pleasant memories of first love perhaps , or possibly a visit to a well-loved grandmother who always smelled of lavender-water . |
| 27 | It always behaved for Brian . |
| 28 | ‘ He was my enemy , ’ he was saying , ‘ but he always behaved like a gentleman . |
| 29 | ‘ He always changed for the evening meal regardless of whether anyone was coming or not ’ . |
| 30 | She 's sitting down with her back to me , just like she always used to , and I 'm brushing slow and gentle , making her hair nice and neat . |