Example sentences of "always [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have always depended on the kindness of strangers ’ , says Blanche DuBois in Streetcar . |
| 2 | Advertising and public relations can try to improve or change the image of a client but this is always limited by the nature of how the reputation was built and earned in the first place and how the client will really act in the future . |
| 3 | It should be pointed out that they were nearly always pressed into the disc at the time of manufacture , not pasted on afterwards ; so the paper and inks had to be able to withstand high temperatures . |
| 4 | The Dyaks of Borneo , for instance , have always referred to the orangutan as the " man of the forest " , treating him at least with the dignity accorded to neighbouring tribes , whereas the Europeans , on examining the first Tierra del Fuegans brought back to the West , could not decide whether to classify them as humans or animals . |
| 5 | It was no coincidence that Franco always referred to the exercise of political power as " el mando " — " command " . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've always referred to the diary as ‘ my grandfather 's log book ’ , ’ said Mr Heward , 65 , of Birchwood Road , Marton , Middlesbrough . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was always fascinated by the effect of the sustain pedal — you know , the way you can run one note into another , something like a harp sound . |
| 9 | Sufficient time is not always given to the study of the basic principles and the proper spacing and placing of the movements . |
| 10 | He always sits on the floor in front of me . |
| 11 | The features are the retrograde motion of the planets and the fact that , unlike the other planets , Mercury and Venus always remain in the proximity of the sun . |
| 12 | George Bush has had the advantage which always goes with the holder of the highest office of being addressed as Mr President . |
| 13 | ‘ Striking women always goes against the grain with me . ’ |
| 14 | The lunchtime crush at the Washington was beginning to thin ; but the serious drinkers always gathered round the bar for their last stand . |
| 15 | As in the case of the infinitive of reaction , this use seems apparently to contradict the hypothesis that the support of the to infinitive is always situated before the place in time ( to be ) occupied by its event ; however , when compared with the use of the -ing form here , the contrasting expressive effects suggest another interpretation : ( 21a ) Reading Gideon on Beet was a new literary experience . |
| 16 | I have always relied on the kindness of my friends . |
| 17 | Theory is always taught in the context of real-life applications , preferably drawn from examples to be found in industry . |
| 18 | I was always attracted by the lifestyle of a nun , particularly that of a contemplative . |
| 19 | Her regular shopping trip to get the food for the Sabbath was something she always enjoyed as the prelude to the best part of the week with its special evening meal , its rituals , her zeide 's stories of his life in Lithuania — no matter how oft repeated — and of course not having to go to work in her father 's store . |
| 20 | In some languages such as Lisu , Japanese , and Korean , topics are further marked by the addition of a morpheme : for example , the suffix -nya is always added to the topic of a sentence in Lisu . |
| 21 | One nurse described how she always knocks at the door of a private room if there is a terminally ill patient in case she should catch them crying . |
| 22 | Like Hyndman , and the Webbs , Blatchford had always looked to the state as the main agency of social change . |
| 23 | Unbelievable , I mean I 've always looked upon the horse as a nice horse not as the winner of an Arkle . |
| 24 | But no single country at present has the money to build a really major new telescope to follow the Space Telescope — and the most important advances in astronomy have always come with the use of a major new instrument , from Galileo 's telescope of 1609 to the Einstein Observatory in 1978 . |
| 25 | His competitive streak has always come to the fore in head-to-head situations , such as the World Match Play and the Ryder Cup . |
| 26 | This is not , in fact , a single theory but an approach which sees racism on the outside of social and political life — sometimes the unwanted blemish is the neo-fascists , sometimes it is immigration laws , other times it is the absence of equal opportunities — yet racism is always located on the surface of other things . |
| 27 | In the police this desire for a clearly defined world of order derives from an implicit understanding that control of social behaviour is always surrounded by the dirt of structural ambivalence . |
| 28 | Though I suspect that what we will find if we really are honest with ourselves that quite a lot of things which we see here are not always exaggerated from the point of the exercise , that we exaggerate things out of all proportion so that we can actually start looking at it and seeing . |
| 29 | The less massive body m is in synchronous rotation and the orbital eccentricity is small , and therefore the tide on m always lies along the line to M. Because the tide on M is misaligned then m can exert a twisting force on M called a torque and this tends to produce alignment . |
| 30 | The habits of mind that went with the mayorazgo were not those of the ideal improving landlord of the Economic Societies , ‘ always occupied in the felicity of his village ’ . |