Example sentences of "always [vb past] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am , I always read like that |
| 2 | Always got like that when he sat still for a long time . |
| 3 | ‘ He was my enemy , ’ he was saying , ‘ but he always behaved like a gentleman . |
| 4 | Once Frank Connor had left the certainties of life in County Limerick , he always seemed like an actor who had wandered into the wrong play . |
| 5 | ‘ I used to hate even visiting South Wales , because the idea of going back always seemed like an admission of defeat to me . |
| 6 | It always seemed like a momentary aberration . |
| 7 | When I asked why , he said he had seen through her , though she always seemed like a nice girl to me . |
| 8 | ‘ It always seemed like a pretty big deal to me , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Watching him secretly from under her lashes , she revelled in his evident pleasure , and could n't help wondering whether he was driving so smoothly because he did n't want to wake her … or because he always drove like a man making love . |
| 10 | But if you hit When you 're going round this hill , if you hit to the right , the ball always came like too many . |
| 11 | To begin with the little-uns looked on Piggy as their parental figure because he always acted like an adult in their eyes and tried to make them laugh . |
| 12 | I mean , I always felt like that but this time was worse . |
| 13 | Although he married into one of the long-established British families and lived on the island for so long , Dr Grabham still bemoaned the exclusiveness of the British in Madeira and said he always felt like an outsider . |
| 14 | She always felt like that when she spied on him which she did quite often , watching him through a gap in the hedge , or from the roof of the boathouse . |
| 15 | What with piles of ironing ( this was during my disorganised period ) , mountains of books ( I refuse to be parted from them ) , and various bric-a-brac , my flat always looked like a junkyard . |
| 16 | Selling off an organisation that has n't made a profit for 40 years always looked like being the toughest possible test of the privatisers ' skills , and recent developments are not making things any easier |
| 17 | thing , but to me it always looked like a barracks |
| 18 | It happened to lots of people in all walks of life , and always looked like a pity . |
| 19 | Apparently the miserable old queen always looked like that . |
| 20 | Charles always smiled like that when he wanted to appease her . |
| 21 | We always travelled like that ; Seton 's task was to ensure that there were no obstacles . ’ |
| 22 | The noise always travelled like that , up the chimney . |