Example sentences of "always [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was part of my planning to use this day to catch up with the vast mound of paperwork , documentation of seizures and reports , which always accumulates after a successful revenue operation . |
| 3 | Absences from work due to leave , sickness , court attendance , police business elsewhere , or transfers can seriously deplete this number on occasions , leaving the section very understaffed , which is why managers are so sensitive about constables phoning in sick , although this sensitivity is not always communicated in a heavy-handed manner . |
| 4 | In quantum theory probabilities are always calculated in a two-step fashion . |
| 5 | It always made for a grand fightfinisher . |
| 6 | Clough has always marched to a different tune , but this time his perversity may finally be his undoing . |
| 7 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 8 | Well I suppose it because , as I told you , those four routes were always treated as a separate entity because they were on , there were possible chances of marrying those routes together to get them to run the most economical way . |
| 9 | ‘ She can always think of a good plan . |
| 10 | By the 1880s the Longhorn was almost extinct but always regarded with a certain fondness as a quaint and essentially useful animal which appealed to cattle-lovers in spite of its commercial faults . |
| 11 | I 'm surprised that such hedonistic , empty headed opinions should find a place in what I have always regarded as a serious , intelligent newspaper . |
| 12 | Yet despite this decision — always regarded as a classic illustration of the common-law presumption in favour of freedom of assembly — the law has developed to the point where we can say with reasonable assurance that the residue of which Dicey was so proud has narrowed to the point of extinction . |
| 13 | However , whereas routine can become mechanical , ritual itself is always intended as a conscious act . |
| 14 | India were always struggling after a tight opening blast by Allan Donald and Fanie de Villiers and were bowled out for 177 . |
| 15 | In acquiring one 's conception of the world one always belongs to a particular grouping which is that of all the social elements which share the same mode of thinking and acting … . |
| 16 | ( Though I do have a friend — Bunny — who always insists on a female doctor or nurse if he has anything wrong of a private nature . |
| 17 | The serjeants at law , who had the exclusive privilege of practising , pleading and audience in the Court of Common Pleas from time immemorial until their exclusive privileges were abolished by the Practitioners in Common Pleas Act 1846 ( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 54 ) , had always fallen into a special category and before the events of 1292 to which reference is made in the 1970 judgment , Parliament had introduced an elementary form of disciplinary control over serjeants and pleaders in the Statute of Westminster 1275 ( 3 Edw. 1 c. 29 ) which provided , in the event of attainder for deceit or collusion in the King 's Court , for a term of imprisonment and for disqualification for life from ‘ pleading in that court for any man . ’ |
| 18 | Her prose has always relied on a certain musicality and lyricism to seduce and keep us spellbound . |
| 19 | He is assiduous in plying me with melba toast , and has the charm one always associates with a private homosexual . |
| 20 | Incidentally , the generic name always starts with a capital letter , and the specific name with a small one , even if it is named after Jones . |
| 21 | But I 'm always reminded of a large bomber aircraft coming in to land , moving very much more slowly than you 'd expect for something of its size . |
| 22 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 23 | Nowhere do Chaucer or any of his characters mock solemn moral prose , but within the Canterbury Tales such prose always stands in a thought-provoking contrast with verse of a lighter tone . |
| 24 | Porridge , for example , was always recommended as a cheap , nutritious food , but for a family cooking in a single pot on an open fire it was an impossible choice , primarily because it tended to stick to the bottom of the pan . |
| 25 | When I asked why , he said he had seen through her , though she always seemed like a nice girl to me . |
| 26 | It always seemed like a momentary aberration . |
| 27 | These rules may provide that certain business activities are always regulated in a certain way , irrespective of where they take place . |
| 28 | So I 've always felt in a false position where Veronica 's concerned . ’ |
| 29 | I was always looking for a short-term miracle . |
| 30 | Some of these planes seem to recede away from the eye into shallow depth , but this sensation is always counteracted by a succeeding passage which will lead the eye forward again up on to the picture plane . |