Example sentences of "always [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I do n't give a damn about Ivan 's ridiculous rag , said Charles , but of course he did , he cared much more than she did , and with reason , for Ivan usually managed to deliver her some backhanded compliment , whereas Charles always got it in the neck : ‘ HEADLEAND CRASHES HEADLONG ’ had been the headline of Ivan 's latest piece of gossip , which had consisted of a dangerous account of Charles 's behaviour at a meeting of a board of directors , laced with unfounded but inventive innuendo about a country house which he and Liz were said to be purchasing as a tax dodge . |
| 2 | I always used it on the tongue or used dexies and black bombers , y'know , swallowed pills and things . |
| 3 | I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event . |
| 4 | Short-term leases , if they do n't contain an absolute bar to assignment , commonly contain a covenant by the lessee not to assign the lease without the lessor 's licence , and usually provide that such licence shall not be unreasonably withheld — if such proviso is omitted , then acting for a prospective lessee you should always insert it in the draft . |
| 5 | Sometimes they 'd fuck right away , or sometimes they 'd wait till they were about to leave , but they 'd always do it on the sheet , the same sheet he 'd brought that first time , as if , without it , some spell might be broken and everything would fall apart . |
| 6 | I could get tired of even roulette if I always played it in the same place . ’ |
| 7 | He 's not gon na change now , he 's always done it with the lofts first man . |
| 8 | The PSA has always done it in the past . |
| 9 | When a politician assisted a freeholder with a gift of a patronage appointment , he would almost always give it in the guise of an act of friendship , and it was the friendly relationship which was the truly significant factor . |
| 10 | It is amazingly powerful , er , please again always open it by the triggers . |
| 11 | The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague . |
| 12 | It was beautiful how they 'd laid it down that the baby should be brought up in Dynmouth so that they could always see it about the place . |
| 13 | I 've spoken to many knitters about the N1 cam and the comment I hear so often is ‘ Oh , I was told was told always to put it in the centre of the machine , or ( worse ! ) at the edge of my knitting ’ . |
| 14 | From seven in the morning he 'd sit there with the thing pressed to his ear ; to preserve the batteries and to avoid alarming the guards , we always set it at the lowest volume . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I know , ’ said Constance , ‘ but Mum always fed it to the cat . |
| 16 | Or you could always take it off the hook , which has a similar effect . |
| 17 | The pater gives her fifty pounds a year as a dress allowance and she has nearly always spent it by the end of the first month . |
| 18 | ‘ You always kept it through the roof , ’ Paul says . |
| 19 | well I always keep it in the box so I do n't get mixed up then , I do n't start calling the mark three key board |
| 20 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 21 | It is said that there is a spell within the music , and that they always spin it for the true heir , and that it protects that heir throughout his life . |
| 22 | He always stored it behind the pipe and when Uncle Philip found it , he would throw it out onto the landing and jump up and down on it . |
| 23 | They always play it by the bloody book . ’ |
| 24 | well , I always do it through the infants , they bring home reading books |
| 25 | You always do it from the inside . |
| 26 | Leeds played good football , nearly always playing it from the back . |
| 27 | That means , we all do it , we always leave it outside the |
| 28 | I never wanted to go to university although I do know , however , that my mum and dad always had it in the back of their minds that I would go . |
| 29 | You always , you always have it at the beginning or any er programme . |
| 30 | She always cooks it in the plastic bag though |