Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] always to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seemed always to be letting him down one way or another . |
| 2 | I found I had always to be looking at her feet . |
| 3 | I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself |
| 4 | She seemed always to be squinting into the sun , or shielding her face with her hand , or hidden by a straw hat or something . |
| 5 | Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues . |
| 6 | ‘ She seems always to be on the tramp these days . ’ |
| 7 | You had always to be on a level piece of ground , you see , with no rise whatsoever and we always had that ; we had an excellent stretch of green sward a short distance from the school , and we gathered there . |
| 8 | We 've always to be better like , that 's why they 're sitting fourth or fifth in the league . |
| 9 | ‘ For charities , there has always to be work yet undone . |
| 10 | They have always to be referred to pedagogic decision . |
| 11 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |
| 12 | Ask him if he intends always to be faithful , and you 've get a 99.9 per cent change of him saying yes . |