Example sentences of "always [verb] [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My boasts that our school was an open school run on democratic lines with no special privileges took no account of the reality that my car was always parked closest to the door and that no one else dared use that space !
2 He always talked nicely to the Men even though they could not understand a word he said .
3 He always saw straight to the point of an argument .
4 I always looked forward to the fortnights we spent in Northumberland .
5 But then she had always reacted strangely to the subject of ageing , had always feared it .
6 I always went straight to the dog and the monkey .
7 The anomaly has not always worked entirely to the advantage of Scotland because , as a result of the requirements of a separate legal system , the British Parliament can not meet fully the need for modernising , reforming and improving that legal system .
8 The French writer Theophile Gautier , for example , observed that his female cat would always listen attentively to the singers that he accompanied on the piano .
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