Example sentences of "[noun sg] always [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The town was packed with carts and horses for the Great Killer always kept Calais well fortified . |
| 2 | On Wednesday , which is a day of rest in Brobdingnag , like our Sunday , the King and Queen always had dinner together , with their children , in the King 's rooms . |
| 3 | Yeah , me mum always said Lee Lancs |
| 4 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |
| 5 | The patronal festival of the parish church of St Peter of Tankersley should be the 29th June , but Tankersley Feast always took place during the second week of July . |
| 6 | Her weird , rather witchlike appearance always drew eyes ; who could ignore that bony frame in its tent of an ethnic dress , those rimless spectacles and thin bloodless lips under spikes of white hair radiating all round her head ? |
| 7 | It is well known that this canal always had water shortages , even before modern water extraction diverted part of its natural supply at Greywell , and thousands of thirsty trees grew up on its banks on what had been open country in 1790 . |
| 8 | This was impossible , Engels tells us , so long as descent was reckoned in the female line , because he believed inheritance and group membership always went hand in hand . |
| 9 | ‘ Our King always wanted Buckingham dead , as did the Lord Cardinal . |
| 10 | And probably you 're in hock to the Service 's being friends ( the Service always had banking friends ) for this boatyard , too . |
| 11 | Furthermore it was suggested to her mother that Kim 's activity and feeding the baby always took place in the same room so that her mother could provide verbal prompts and on-going comments . |
| 12 | Her ladyship always took advice from art historians before she would even change as much the piping on a cushion . |
| 13 | His father always favoured George , he thought angrily as they plodded up the lane . |
| 14 | He worked for compromises between the ‘ Wets ’ and Mrs Thatcher , but at the end always backed Mrs Thatcher . |
| 15 | Betjeman always loathed Lewis thereafter , though as they got older they both tried to make a bit of a joke about it . |
| 16 | Eugénie always held Biarritz in special affection and it was a source of great pleasure to her when in 1880 she managed to recover the furniture from the Villa which she installed in her house in Farnborough . |
| 17 | As Kenneth Macpherson was to note , film always gave evidence of ‘ its humble Pier Penny Peep Show beginning ’ . |
| 18 | Myra always said Geminis were good with ideas , and if this one worked it could solve her immediate problems . |
| 19 | In this connection , it is interesting that many of the restrictions on economic life in the Pentateuch were to ensure that each family always had access to part of the society 's capital — namely a plot of land and some animals . |
| 20 | And er I know the housing office always had excuses that they had put the the report in and we were just waiting for someone to do it . |
| 21 | Disgruntlement always led Bertha Cohen to exaggeration . |
| 22 | My son always had dolls and his favourite toy is a doll 's house . |