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Example sentences of "[pron] always [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	That was your annual affair and the er the er the chapel itself was at the end of it used to put up a tiered platform if you can imagine it you know at the end of the little chapel and the erm the younger children was on the bottom and as you got older you graduated to the top and er I do n't know why it was though but er I always had to say the collection piece .
2	I always had to pay a nurse to look after her ; she wasted away , could n't stand or walk , but her eyes were as bright as a child 's and so was her wit .
3	Will and I always went to see the plays .
4	I always enjoyed walking the full length of the street to check how the other shops were faring .
5	I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away .
6	I actually enjoyed dark skies and rain which I always thought enhanced the colours .
7	Such a simple idea , I always thought to have a wall of panelled doors that folded back .
8	I always did admire the Eastern approach to these matters .
9	I always did like a challenge .
10	I always wanted to do the heavy parts .
11	‘ I always wanted to tackle the overcrowding in Darlington which is why I provided the £243,000 in the first place .
12	I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way .
13	I always wanted to play the guitar , though , so I went the usual route : buy the guitar and play along to records . ’
14	I always wanted to find a woman who liked to do what I liked to do — but I could never find one who wanted to drink and chase women .
15	" I always wanted to have a child , " said a nineteen-year-old woman living on a Sunderland housing estate with her parents .
16	CATHERINE No , I would like to have been , I always wanted to have a child but I never did .
17	Actually , I always wanted to write a play about how life gets so tedious that we start reminiscing about what happened two minutes ago .
18	Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp .
19	‘ I always tried to do the best or what I thought was best .
20	‘ I was on the other end of the question for most of my life as a British Telecom customer manager , and I always tried to see the view of the underdog , because there is just a chance he might be right , ’ he said .
21	I always tried to understand the man and I never had any problems with him .
22	The juniors were very earnest and keen cricketers and I always found umpiring a ticklish business as I do not know the rules .
23	Not for him the histrionics which always seemed to accompany a Mansell win last year .
24	She always expected to find a rival ; but there was no rival , unless you count Emma Bovary .
25	But it seemed that Sister Benedicta must sin a lot because she always seemed to get the dirty jobs .
26	She always did bring the water eventually , and to her cronies Mairi sometimes admitted she was glad to see the back of her for a few hours ; but that never weakened her tongue .
27	You always had to do the tails up summer-fashion or winter-fashion .
28	‘ You always did have a gallant streak , Jimmie , ’ Randall said , skirting the crowd .
29	Her eyes innocently wide , she gave a slow smile , because she had known it was a viewing platform , of course ; and he knew that she knew , which meant that he was teasing her , and that he was one of those people who always managed to keep a straight face .
30	A girl who wore her long dark hair loose , who practically lived in jeans and sweatshirts , and who always seemed to have a couple of paint stains on her somewhere because she was trying to scrape a living by producing exquisitely detailed illustrations for books .