Example sentences of "[pers pn] always [vb past] at " in BNC.

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1 Being a great fan of classical violin music , I always marvelled at how players such as Itzhak Perlman , Schlomo Mintz , Jascha Heifetz , Isaac Stern and others would play ( with seemingly little effort ) long and fast arpeggio passages .
2 Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home .
3 She always felt at home here .
4 She always looked at every farthing twice before parting with it .
5 Whenever I saw her , she always smiled at me , It was as if she 'd got me confused with someone else , someone important Once I had half an hour to wait for a transport .
6 There was no kitchen but then we always ate at the market .
7 I went round to their place again and we had toast and tea with real cow 's milk , not the Handy Brand condensed milk we always had at home .
8 They always camped at Dartmeet in summer .
9 They always passed at about the same time , right after midnight , and it was something he liked to watch , the way other people watch sunsets or the ocean .
10 I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation .
11 Was n't that what they always said at the Lab ?
12 It was a place he visited often , at night , a place where he always felt at peace .
13 He knew that he always operated at full efficiency when driven by anger ; from now on , he was suddenly sure , he was in control of this bloody conference .
14 He paused as he always did at the foot of the stairs , his left hand holding the lamp , his right hand resting on the banisters .
15 The other curse was directed at the committee members of the local Working Men 's Club when they banned my father , on the pretext of his epilepsy , but really because he always won at cards and was n't keen to give people a chance to win their money back .
16 ‘ We used to say good morning to each other and he always smiled at me , ’ he recalls .
17 He always stayed at Le Richemond , one of the few hotels still in private hands in Geneva .
18 He always stayed at a high-class hotel on trips abroad .
19 He always sat at ‘ the Painters ’ table' which was regarded with envy from other quarters , in part because of the noisy laughter engendered by Minton 's wit .
20 He always sat at the end of the second coach , in the small , first-class compartment with red plush seats .
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