Example sentences of "always [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always avoided Nicholson , who scared him . |
| 2 | Flt Lt Marshall was extremely embarrassed and always avoided my eye whenever he came into the Met Office after that . |
| 3 | For they always avoided towns and traffic ; they avoided also the larger roads which became turnpikes in the eighteenth century and were subject to tolls , and they were short-turfed for the cattle and sheep , grazing as they went . |
| 4 | Indeed the ladies always avoided the business trams if they possibly could . |
| 5 | Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled . |
| 6 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 7 | In the first car he was stopped ten or more times for no reason at all and always asked the same questions : is this your car … are you sure that it 's your car … are you sure it is n't a stolen car , and then asked to produce his driving documents . |
| 8 | She dreaded the inspector coming because he always asked a lot of questions , and told her how lucky she was that she would soon be able to go to a big place in London where there were lots of other girls and boys . |
| 9 | Williams was one of those players who never learned to properly channel his aggression , never believed anybody knew better than him and always asked ‘ Why me ? ’ of critics rather than himself . |
| 10 | When they returned on Thursday evening , I always asked the Earl if he had seen his grandchildren , William and Harry . |
| 11 | Dr Mumby , supported by his staff , said that he always asked patients ' permission before giving their names to journalists . |
| 12 | A professional decorator told me years ago that when carrying out domestic painting , he always asked the lady of the house the shade she would like for the finished coat . |
| 13 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 14 | I always asked people in the streets or markets if they minded my drawing from a certain position . |
| 15 | White blurs passed around us and coloured pills stuck in my throat but , from time to time , I saw a man in a room on my own and he always asked me how I was feeling . |
| 16 | She pretended ( Caro was sure it was pretence ) to be particularly worried about the two poor fatherless children , and always asked after them . |
| 17 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 18 | Her classically good diction always became even clearer under stress , so that this statement emerged with the slightly metallic clarity of a dubbed film , and the clientèle of the small café was obviously appreciating every moment . |
| 19 | The officials of the chapel were the arch-chaplain or arch-chancellor , its honorific head , who was always an archbishop , and from the late tenth century always archbishop of Mainz , and the chancellor , who nearly always became a bishop and commonly an archbishop . |
| 20 | When knitting with more than two colours and not having a colour changer I found that no matter where I place the cones on the floor , the colour I was knitting always became entangled with the others not in use . |
| 21 | Three initiatives in particular " confirmed " their fears : a seminar series held in 1954 and entitled " Encounters between Poetry and the University " , which were ostensibly purely cultural but always became highly politicized ; a projected " Congress of Young University Writers " , planned for November 1955 by pro-democratic students and progressive Falangists , but banned by the Ministry of the Interior ; and the idea of a " National Congress of Students " , in preparation for which a manifesto calling for the abolition of the SEU monopoly of student representation was circulated in universities throughout Spain in early 1956 . |
| 22 | If , as happened more frequently , she did not , she let her view be known , even though it almost always led to a quarrel . |
| 23 | Disgruntlement always led Bertha Cohen to exaggeration . |
| 24 | She always led me to believe my father was a solid company man — rose through the ranks to become managing director , or so I understood . ’ |
| 25 | Again , he always savoured the bizarre , eccentric experience — it would be useful material . |
| 26 | I knew it by the way their eyes glowed green and yellow in the dark and because they always hopped in my direction in spite of how much I hated them . |
| 27 | ‘ Whatever you like , sir , ’ I replied , knowing very well that he always requested something Irish . |
| 28 | ‘ Mrs Dingle always 'ad a clay pipe stuck in 'er gob . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And God was very good to me there , I was n't the brightest in the year and I had to work very hard , but God always was with me as I always passed my exams much to my surprise . |