Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] always [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The photograph she always used as a bookmark fluttered out of it . |
| 2 | Hated that slim body with its perfect skin which always nestled into Jacob 's embrace . |
| 3 | Not so popular was the experimental survival section of the course which always seemed to be carried out in extremely inclement weather with a helicopter helping to increase the discomfort of tossing about on a life raft in Plymouth Sound . |
| 4 | She had thin , brittle , permed hair , and , under the blue and white checked overall she always wore for work , her legs were stringy and knotted with varicose veins . |
| 5 | As a child she always dreamt of working with animals . |
| 6 | She hesitated , torn between the unaccountable shyness she always felt in Louise 's presence and the overwhelming desire to be in on whatever it was they were giggling about , even if she was only a barely tolerated spectator . |
| 7 | Oh yes , I love it , I mean , as a boy I used to support West Ham but I am now firmly behind Oxford United , and I want them to beat West Ham , because as a boy they always lost for me , West Ham . |
| 8 | Miss Ellis ' eyebrows launched into the twitchy dance they always seemed to at the mention of the words , ‘ my mother . ’ |
| 9 | Over on one side , Lars Ulrich blinked his fashionably painted eyelids whilst he calculated moments of inertia and angular velocities on the wax tablet he always carried with him . |
| 10 | She managed to conceal the physical revulsion she always felt from close contact with this man . |
| 11 | Joan Halton is disturbed by an old guilt related to the underlying resentment and fury she felt in respect of her younger sister who always seemed to be allowed to come first . |
| 12 | She is sorely missed for the loyal support she always gave to Classes and Events and the Kent Team is not quite the same without her … but our loss is the West Country 's gain and we hope to meet up with Janet at the Easter Course in Bath . |
| 13 | She did n't answer : Nick saw in her face the struggle she always had with herself before she went in the water . |
| 14 | ‘ Playing with D'Arcy has been a real education because up until she joined the band I always thought about rock in male terms . |
| 15 | The someone , who was , of course , Dr Neil , struck a Swan Vesta to light the oil-lamp which always stood on a side-table where he usually kept the book which he was currently reading . |
| 16 | This understanding of ‘ service ’ was crucial to the political practicality of citizenship which always depended upon being able to offer a reconciliation between ‘ personal rights ’ and , despite the vacillating liberal reinterpretations , ‘ the community ’ . |
| 17 | Finally she made her choice and gave the reasons for it with the confidence she always brought to her work . |
| 18 | He was the android who always travelled with them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then , out of his overcoat pocket he produced a safety razor-blade , with which he sharpened the pencil he always used for his often indecipherable , cramped little scribbles — a sign , a psychiatrist later told me , of someone wanting to attract as little attention as possible , as in the case of Robert Walser . |
| 21 | Well , in theory he was doing what he was supposed to do since this was the time of day he always spent with Katrine and he had been told not to vary the routine . |
| 22 | Then there surfaced that seriousness which always lay beneath Leslie 's cheerfulness and exuberance : |
| 23 | I 've another mate who always wanted to be an actor . |
| 24 | The grass they always lay on parched yellow . |
| 25 | She had watched girl friends drift from affair to affair which always began with such certainty that ‘ this time it will be different ’ , and inevitably ended in tears with the realisation that it was n't . |
| 26 | I remember some other kids , a girls ' dorm , green-painted walls with a red border half-way up , a stiff roller-towel next to a wash-hand-basin , the scent of carbolic soap , hugs from a kind , laughing lady with large arms and the comforting smell of B.O. , and a small , quiet , wiry man who always seemed to be sweeping and winking . |
| 27 | The usual 'flu stiffness and aching in the muscles did n't go away as it should have done , so Father sent for Dr Allott , our family physician , a patient , gentle old man who always arrived in an Essex sedan and — more important to us — always carried a pocketful of toffees to give away to children . |
| 28 | In the passage she encountered the man who always smelt of meat on the turn . |
| 29 | Charlesworth and Nathan ( 1982 ) tell a very poignant story about a young man who always wanted to be a lumberjack . |
| 30 | Other aromas conjure up pleasant memories of first love perhaps , or possibly a visit to a well-loved grandmother who always smelled of lavender-water . |