Example sentences of "always [vb past] [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 always made for a grand fightfinisher . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When I asked why , he said he had seen through her , though she always seemed like a nice girl to me . |
| 5 | It always seemed like a momentary aberration . |
| 6 | The Surrealist School always appealed to a narrower , more intellectual band of collectors than those who bought the Impressionists . |
| 7 | They were hollowed-out places , but always came to a dead end . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But Paula , like most brides , always hankered after a traditional white wedding . |
| 9 | Any visit to the doctor always resulted in a prescribed medication that was ineffective . |
| 10 | you always went to a proper butcher then , you did n't go to the supermarket because you had a good butcher that you used to go |
| 11 | Mr Getty , by omitting the letter ‘ i ’ , reduced Colin 's Christian name to a monosyllable , while Colin contrived to get three separate sounds into the name Paul , which he always spoke with a rising inflexion . |
| 12 | He always spoke in a peculiar snuffling manner . |
| 13 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 14 | He always stayed at a high-class hotel on trips abroad . |
| 15 | Several of the men always stayed in a small hotel in Cairo in Suleiman Pasha Street run by a character they called the ‘ Honest Greek ’ . |