Example sentences of "[pers pn] did [adv] always [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me delicatessen means herring , 1,001 varieties of herring , but I did not always regard them as such if only because I virtually lived on them . |
| 2 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 3 | ‘ But I want to make something of myself — I did n't always think so . |
| 4 | I did n't always mean … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't always know . |
| 6 | And I did n't always know what I was feeling either . |
| 7 | I found her insight and her interpretations of dreams interesting , although I did n't always agree with them . |
| 8 | I did n't always agree with her Chopin , and her Liszt was a disaster area , but I 'd listen to her for a long time if it 's Schumann . |
| 9 | Cos you did n't always hear it . |
| 10 | A LETTER from Greta Garbo shows she did not always want to be alone . |
| 11 | True , they had behaved coldly to her afterwards but that was probably because they were envious of the success of her tea parties , to which she did not always feel obliged to invite them … |
| 12 | One of Aunt Janie 's favourite sayings was ‘ Give them their roses now ’ , not wait ‘ till they are lying on their bier ’ , although she did not always practise what she preached . |
| 13 | The British Ambassador — a tall thin Scotsman from Edinburgh was always quiet , polite and well-dressed , but she did not always believe what he said . |
| 14 | Her remarkable statement in an interview , ‘ I am the Cabinet rebel ’ suggests that , if she gave a lead , she did not always have a majority of followers . |
| 15 | When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me . |
| 16 | Sarah knew she was slow , and she tried hard to grasp things more quickly and to keep her mind on the task or game in hand , but she did n't always succeed . |
| 17 | She could read them all , Oxo , Rinso , O-Cedar , and Aero , even if she did n't always understand what they meant . |
| 18 | We did n't always do the same trips . |
| 19 | We did n't always win , I 'm afraid . |
| 20 | And er we did n't always remember where they lived . |
| 21 | Er we did n't always know what was going on but erm , we did catch the planes when they took off in the morning and we watched them come home in the afternoons and we got some ideas sometimes when things had n't gone quite right and I 'm sure we did share with you in your grief . |
| 22 | H. P. I remember one time , the inspector coming round — we did n't always see eye-to-eye — telling me I had n't polished my buttons . |
| 23 | We did not always eat turkey for Christmas dinner . |
| 24 | We did not always agree . |
| 25 | They did not always meet with success , however ; Parker 's clergy , for example , refused to sign the address . |
| 26 | They did not always think that it was fair . |
| 27 | The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government . |
| 28 | The wealthy , upwardly mobile , aggressive and sophisticated certainly benefited from the colonial administration of law and order , but they did not always have everything their own way . |
| 29 | However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed . |
| 30 | The barons were comparatively few in number ; the Church formally forbade them to marry their sixth cousins or any nearer relatives , and seriously attempted to enforce the prohibition on third cousins ; and even though they did not always accept this limitation , it meant that they looked far and wide in their own class for marriage alliances . |