Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And she cried out as a cascade of fireworks seemed to explode deep within her , before their bodies , now moving in perfect unison , recaptured the fierce , tumultuous pleasure they had always shared in the past — the total consummation which she had been denied for so long .
2 But what he had left her was the key to untangling the harmony of dancing lights and that let her in to a place which like a child she had always stared at unknowing before .
3 Quickly Lisa jumped in , putting to him a question she had always wondered about .
4 It was an extension — or so I thought — of the tact she had always shown to me as a child that she did n't impose .
5 She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation .
6 And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong .
7 But at the hack of your head you had always thought for rescue , reaching hands .
8 Maggie had been amazed at her own fury , rocked by the power of Fenna within her , breaking through the cool disdain she tried always to preserve in front of this loathsome woman .
9 Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ .
10 During the course of the evening she met Princess Grace of Monaco , a woman she had always admired from afar .
11 They 'd been married in a church she 'd always gone to as a child and afterwards there was a reception in the Mansfield Hotel , near by and convenient , and then she and Gordon had gone to Cumberland .
12 Ben studied his brother — the man he had always thought of as his father and saw suddenly that it did not matter what he was in reality , for Hal Shepherd had become what he believed he was .
13 At least , so Marco said , and expatiated freely on the idea of a performance he had always thought of mounting there , a mood piece , a son et lumière .
14 Its not-very-complicated mind was trying to come to terms with the fact that the shape of the nomes — two arms , two legs , a head at the top — was a shape it associated with humans and had learnt to avoid , but the size was the size it had always thought of as a mouthful .
15 With that intuitive understanding she had always had with him , she knew exactly what he meant .
16 The Viet Minh attacked in Hanoi ; many French people were killed and wounded , among them Sainteny who had always pressed for compromise .
17 What intrigued me was their mutual indifference to an activity I 'd always imagined to be both intimate and passionate .
18 I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home .
19 ‘ Disney executives flew me out there and gave me the kind of treatment I 'd always dreamed about when I was an actress … bouquets , champagne , limousines , ’ says Lynda .
20 Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us .
21 She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be .
22 That night , Jessica Roberts found the ritual element she had always accepted in her high home life hard to bear .
23 ‘ After the success of ‘ Colour Of Spring ’ we found ourselves in the position we 'd always dreamed of , ’ explains Mark Hollis , the main force behind Talk Talk .
24 Most were of local importance only , serving a limited rural hinterland in the way they had always done since the Middle Ages .
25 Would that have altered the way he 'd always felt about her ?
26 Having got the kind of structure it had always insisted upon , it seems clear that Britain had no qualms about such a statement being used to promote some version of supranationalism .
27 He was using his soft , reasonable tone now , his professional lecturer tone he 'd always switched to when he wanted to wield authority .
28 For starters , there was Rourke 's well known problem with heroin which had always grated against Morrissey 's concept of the band being vegetarian , celibate and literary .
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