Example sentences of "[vb past] always [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nobody had wanted to be regularly policed as people were abroad , preferring to leave it to the magistrates to swear in special constables as they 'd always done in times of civil disturbance , or use the troops . |
| 3 | On the way down to their holidays in Cornwall his parents had always stopped at Stonehenge for a slow coffee break while he had crossed the road to walk around the stones . |
| 4 | The simple fact is that American consumers regarded them as boring , which is why 60 per cent of the crop had always gone into products like bread and biscuits . |
| 5 | I had always lived at home with my family . |
| 6 | The principles here are clear , fully Catholic and yet in terms of pre-conciliar Roman theory revolutionary ( not so revolutionary in practice : some sacramental sharing had always continued in parts of the East where ecclesiastical reality had never quite caught up with the theory of ultramontanism ) . |
| 7 | Though apparently divorced from ‘ Cultural Progress ’ as related to the Basutu , which Eliot was also considering in 1936 , his idea of poetic drama was part of the same concern with embodying and strengthening what he had always associated with ideas of culture and community and which his dealings with the ‘ lower races ’ had helped to teach him : the need for art linked to religious ritual as a central value summing up and sustaining the social values of a culture . |
| 8 | Although the Soviet Union had become the major influence on revolutionary socialist movements since 1917 , the Communist International had always looked upon Germany as the next most likely centre for a proletarian revolution . |
| 9 | I had always thought of Italy as my spiritual home . |
| 10 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 11 | She had always thought of Jack as a Greek hero , indeed as that particular hero . |
| 12 | They passed lock-up stores , splendid Georgian terraces , and the stern front of St Mary 's Church with its massive columns which had always seemed to Boxer like the fingers of an upraised hand ordering him to halt , enter and say a prayer . |