Example sentences of "[noun] always [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Jon Pepper always struck me as a very proficient newsman .
2 But the mind always expresses itself through the body , consciously or unconsciously , just as it does in humans .
3 So whenever she was busy sewing , Corbett always recognised it as a bad sign .
4 Since the STJ always confined itself to veiled hints of this kind rather than anything more explicit , and since there is little or no literature available on the women 's suffrage movement in Edinburgh , it is impossible to say whether there was indeed any personal connection between the Master Printers and the " West End suffragettes . "
5 " When I go on holiday Con always takes him for a week or two and he has never mentioned any … anything unusual … in that way . "
6 So company obligations always put them in your diary , and anything that goes in your diary is an appointment not to be broken .
7 Other people 's houses always intrigued her by the contrast they offered to Greystones ; she would see suddenly — with detached interest and quite without envy or criticism — the extent to which other people 's preoccupations differed from her own .
8 Mr Harvey always take us to the Kentucky Derby and we stay in Washington for the Preakness meeting , then go on to some friends of the Harveys in New York .
9 ‘ Yes , I know , ’ said Constance , ‘ but Mum always fed it to the cat .
10 This four-weekly experience always sent him to bed with a migraine for the rest of the day .
11 The way nature always intended it to .
12 They 're so much more satisfactorily final and distinguished than weddings ; and christenings always fill me with great unease and pessimism and I do n't like sugared almonds . ’
13 She asks us if we would agree that Julia Roberts is the most stunning thing we 've ever seen , and we have to admit that Julia 's extraordinarily wide mouth and upturned nose always remind us of someone with their face pressed against a plate-glass window .
14 ‘ I 've never seen the other two wearing them , but Kurt always has one on … wonder if he ever changes it ? ’
15 There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid .
16 As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ .
17 For the majority of runners , though , the rapid approach of the race always reminds them of the training they meant to do , but never quite did , and of the aches and pains of the winter .
18 I nibble a few agreeably soft haws , whose flesh always reminds me of slightly overripe avocado pear , then start on the blackberries , which are still swelling in good numbers , despite all those saws about not picking them after Michaelmas .
19 There are so many to admire … the young river , rushing headlong over the Linn of Dee … salmon leaping up the Falls of Feugh … the austere beauty and grandeur of mountain scenery always surrounds you in this gloriously unspoilt land .
20 And when you take on the role always hold something in reserve , so it 's what they 've created , but here 's something unexpected about it .
21 People always take me for being drunk .
22 ‘ Peter means well and people always forgive him for his little failures .
23 I never suspected a thing , even though my supposed father always kept me at arm 's length . ’
24 Bertha always wore them on her dress , and they clinked as she walked along .
25 Without a shadow of doubt Steven Morrissey always saw himself in that light .
26 The reservation has to be that the performance always keeps something in hand , in many ways effectively so , but in the end missing some of the physical thrill of this work .
27 The late Martin Stevens always reminded me of a sort of roly-poly Noel Coward .
28 But Uncle Bill always took me on his knee and cuddled me when I said I was afraid of Captain .
29 She has to have it and my nan always puts them in the same
30 He had a little book called Blackie 's Guide to Flowers of the Wayside , and he and Constance always took it with them on their walks .
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