Example sentences of "always [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not be the part nearest the house , though this is where sitting out areas always tend to be made . |
| 2 | The microphones in a radio studio always tend to be large and rather obtrusive . |
| 3 | ‘ You always tend to business first ? ’ |
| 4 | If , as happened more frequently , she did not , she let her view be known , even though it almost always led to a quarrel . |
| 5 | Subjects are always limited to making judgements about experiences ; experimenters are stuck with observing physical events like evoked potentials , verbal reports and button presses . |
| 6 | The head of a local network in the Northern Band , Rajaruwo , literally , ‘ King ’ , was related to a middle-level headman in a region where such appointments were always limited to the respectable and wealthy . |
| 7 | The Minimalist 's notion of site specificity was always limited to the room , the perfect white cube . |
| 8 | While the term essay may refer to a form of highly regarded literary style , the term composition is always limited to the classroom . |
| 9 | Emma is the kind of fictitious Englishwoman who always refers to herself as ‘ one ’ and views the world with social and intellectual hauteur . |
| 10 | The wife of a friend of mine always refers to his as Doris . |
| 11 | oh , you know it 's amazing when you erm a reference always refers to something else , you got ta go and get that |
| 12 | ‘ Except for the dinner queue , the dinner nannies always push to the front . |
| 13 | However hard he tried , he somehow always failed to be the son she wanted ; the son she truly deserved . |
| 14 | Substandard nursing practice may or may not be the fault of the individual , but it always points to inadequate supervision and teaching . |
| 15 | A compass is really a magnetized needle which always points to the North . |
| 16 | Always referred to as ‘ the product ’ , this item is of minimal importance — unless accompanied by easily retailable novelties ( T-shirts , key rings , inflatables ) or recorded on a ‘ talking book ’ tape with Paul Eddington and that nice Felicity Kendal doing the voices . |
| 17 | Tomorrow or the day after I will send you the merchandise [ that was the way Modi always referred to his paintings ] . |
| 18 | Mrs Rouncewell has two sons , the elder of whom , always referred to by CD as Mr Rouncewell , is a successful ironmaster in the North Country ; he has three daughters and a son , Watt , who falls in love with Lady Dedlock 's maid Rosa , and eventually marries her . |
| 19 | I am always referred to as Lysaght 's ‘ second-in-command ’ . ' |
| 20 | Strangely my mother always referred to the area between St. Paul 's Road and Gas Lane as ‘ the old Gaol ground ’ , no doubt copying her mother 's description for the area was developed for housing in 1870 . |
| 21 | Hence the moulding of that most deplorable product the ‘ humble boy ’ and the strengthening of what I had always referred to as ‘ the civil service mentality ’ until I encountered Michael Manley 's much more telling phrase the ‘ psychology of dependence ’ . |
| 22 | A non-pedigree dog is always referred to as a mongrel and , strictly speaking , this is the correct term for a non-pedigree cat , but few people use it in this way . |
| 23 | Joseph , always referred to and called Jossey Dummy , was a tall , thin , round-shouldered youth . |
| 24 | Coming from someone who 'd obviously never been in the right frame of mind magnetically to attach anything but his salary to himself — money Anwar always referred to as ‘ unearned income ’ — this seemed a bit rich . |
| 25 | Always referred to by the locals as ‘ the Spanish ’ , they had their own school ( where the Hotel Monte Carlo is now situated ) and the New Year 's Eve parties here were particularly popular . |
| 26 | The depôt in Aurelia Road , West Croydon , always referred to by the Company as ‘ Mitcham Road Depôt ’ was built round the cars dumped on the site , by W. Taylor & Co . |
| 27 | The Metropolitan Electric Tramways already allocated class letters to their cars ( always referred to as ‘ Type ’ letters ) ; the other two companies were brought into line as follows : — |
| 28 | Adam always referred to ‘ my lawns ’ , ‘ my house ’ , ‘ my furniture ’ . |
| 29 | Philip 's father had served in the Irish Guards in the First World War , and was always referred to by his rank . |
| 30 | There , as we have seen , psychotic reactions are always referred to as diseases — which they are , to the extent that they involve serious disruption of the nervous system 's behaviour . |