Example sentences of "[vb past] always [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Hancock , the girl from the other side of the tracks , had always professed her love for the rough , tough ex-miner who made a fortune and espoused the most outlandish ideas . |
| 2 | Rabbi Moishe was the only one of the family who had always called his grandson by his Yiddish pet name . |
| 3 | ‘ Nandie ’ had always enjoyed his two-pennyworth of rum , having ‘ … always declared , and on several occasions proved , that if he venture three-pennyworth , intoxication resulted ’ . |
| 4 | Complicated and delicious meals had always found their way to the table , and she had enjoyed them without ever bothering to find out how they were concocted . |
| 5 | His mother had always flaunted her poverty as if it were a virtue , so there had been no reason to believe she owned an asset as substantial as a house . |
| 6 | I had always put my hand on that attenuated strip of iron to push the gate open . |