Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seemed always to be letting him down one way or another . |
| 2 | When I hear the word " tending " I think always of that confident attentiveness to the needs of the machines , the control over work that was unceasing , with half a mind and hands engaged but the looms always demanding attention . |
| 3 | Erm , and we , we find although Amnesty does run er door to door collection which we are always encouraged to join in which we never have , which is I think always in June , in June now , it 's good time , it 's a good time of year for it , but that means going round putting envelopes in doors , going back and collecting them , the arguments on the doorstep about Amnesty , er going back again if people are not in and we , we as a , relatively small group covering a very big area we , we have n't felt able to do that , and we actually find that by standing in the street with each person having a tin for one or two hours , we can do quite well that way and er , that 's , that 's . |
| 4 | I found I had always to be looking at her feet . |
| 5 | At the time er well I 've always through the roofing right you you come up against site fore you know site foreman general foreman clerk of works and I I 've always got on well with I can always talk to people . |
| 6 | I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself |
| 7 | For example , in English Hop Growers Ltd v Derring [ 1928 ] 2 KB 174 Scrutton LJ said " I have always for myself regarded it as in the public interest that parties who , being in an equal position of bargaining , make contracts , should be compelled to perform them , and not to escape from their liabilities by saying that they had agreed to something which was unreasonable " . |
| 8 | They carry negligible risk , a known rate of return if held to their redemption which occurs always in the near future and there is a ready market for them . |
| 9 | Georg Simmel 's analysis of a Zweierverbindung , a ‘ union of two ’ or ‘ dyad ’ as it is usually translated , defines it as the minimal social unit , which depends always on ‘ immediacy of interaction ’ , there being no super-individual unit to which either party can also belong ( as with larger group-structures ) . |
| 10 | At the same time , education , which had always in fact been a political matter , if only because of the vast sums of public money spent on it , became increasingly and more obviously political because of the politicization of local government . |
| 11 | Necessarily some favourites have been left out of the selection and among them are the two larger than life , cast stone sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck — the ‘ Kneeling woman ’ of 1911 and the ‘ Standing youth ’ of 1913 ( two of the museum 's earliest acquisitions , by the way ) — which have always within living memory afforded a moment of tenuous serenity in the same room with Kokoschka 's simmering double portrait of the Tietzes and Max Beckmann 's horrific ‘ Departure ’ . |
| 12 | She has always in her thoughts her parents ' mean condition and I shall do nothing for them , at least at present , because I will keep the girl humble . |
| 13 | She was absolutely convinced that what she liked other people wanted too ; a canny instinct which she used always as her guiding principle and from which no one could shake her . |
| 14 | She seemed always to be squinting into the sun , or shielding her face with her hand , or hidden by a straw hat or something . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ She seems always to be on the tramp these days . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Have faith in the future , my princes , ’ she had concluded , ‘ and be of good cheer — you are your father 's sons , and he who laughed always at adversity would have been proud of you . |
| 18 | Deems was a soft and highly coloured man who spoke always in a low voice . |
| 19 | Who is the third who walks always beside you ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She slept always with her window open and would drift into sleep soothed by that distant murmur . |
| 22 | Solitude , darkness , or the horrible crowd which one sees always in such places as this never make me the least afraid … . |
| 23 | We 've always to be better like , that 's why they 're sitting fourth or fifth in the league . |
| 24 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 25 | We 've always in the West used the term Russian nationalist as one of abuse , er and that it seems to me as , because it 's always in the past been associated with empire , Russian nationalists in practice have oppressed other people , but after all why should the Russians not be patriotic just as the British as er a citizen or a Frenchman can be patriotic , er provided that that does n't go with oppressing other people . |
| 26 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 27 | We live in a house of treasure but some disease of the eyes has blinded us so that we search always for vulgar and expensive toys . |
| 28 | ‘ For charities , there has always to be work yet undone . |
| 29 | And Ma , who always agreed with him ( who did n't dare do otherwise ) , stout , soft Ma , who should have been a refuge , a lap to sit upon , a bosom to weep on , but who herself looked always in need of comfort — crumpled , creased , forever on the verge of tears : |
| 30 | And in normal life too they stand always within call . |