Example sentences of "always [verb] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't give a damn about Ivan 's ridiculous rag , said Charles , but of course he did , he cared much more than she did , and with reason , for Ivan usually managed to deliver her some backhanded compliment , whereas Charles always got it in the neck : ‘ HEADLEAND CRASHES HEADLONG ’ had been the headline of Ivan 's latest piece of gossip , which had consisted of a dangerous account of Charles 's behaviour at a meeting of a board of directors , laced with unfounded but inventive innuendo about a country house which he and Liz were said to be purchasing as a tax dodge . |
| 2 | I always used it on the tongue or used dexies and black bombers , y'know , swallowed pills and things . |
| 3 | I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event . |
| 4 | Short-term leases , if they do n't contain an absolute bar to assignment , commonly contain a covenant by the lessee not to assign the lease without the lessor 's licence , and usually provide that such licence shall not be unreasonably withheld — if such proviso is omitted , then acting for a prospective lessee you should always insert it in the draft . |
| 5 | Sometimes they 'd fuck right away , or sometimes they 'd wait till they were about to leave , but they 'd always do it on the sheet , the same sheet he 'd brought that first time , as if , without it , some spell might be broken and everything would fall apart . |
| 6 | The PSA has always done it in the past . |
| 7 | When a politician assisted a freeholder with a gift of a patronage appointment , he would almost always give it in the guise of an act of friendship , and it was the friendly relationship which was the truly significant factor . |
| 8 | The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague . |
| 9 | It was beautiful how they 'd laid it down that the baby should be brought up in Dynmouth so that they could always see it about the place . |
| 10 | I 've spoken to many knitters about the N1 cam and the comment I hear so often is ‘ Oh , I was told was told always to put it in the centre of the machine , or ( worse ! ) at the edge of my knitting ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I know , ’ said Constance , ‘ but Mum always fed it to the cat . |
| 12 | Or you could always take it off the hook , which has a similar effect . |
| 13 | The pater gives her fifty pounds a year as a dress allowance and she has nearly always spent it by the end of the first month . |
| 14 | ‘ You always kept it through the roof , ’ Paul says . |
| 15 | well I always keep it in the box so I do n't get mixed up then , I do n't start calling the mark three key board |
| 16 | He always stored it behind the pipe and when Uncle Philip found it , he would throw it out onto the landing and jump up and down on it . |
| 17 | You always do it from the inside . |
| 18 | Leeds played good football , nearly always playing it from the back . |
| 19 | I never wanted to go to university although I do know , however , that my mum and dad always had it in the back of their minds that I would go . |
| 20 | You always , you always have it at the beginning or any er programme . |
| 21 | She always cooks it in the plastic bag though |
| 22 | And then of course at er the time of the lambing time you had to go out and help with the lambing time , you know , to help the shepherds with If he 'd a weakling lamb you 'd always to bring it in the house and then feed it in a bottle . |