Example sentences of "always [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors were expected to pay in advance but credit was always given to favourites like Modigliani and Leon Trotsky the Russian revolutionary . |
| 2 | Are you someone who always goes to bed at 11pm ? |
| 3 | Well direct sales you you know I always tried to sort of stay away from companies that you know had a reputation for that . |
| 4 | He always referred to Saeed as his son , never ours . |
| 5 | The world has always looked to Britain for stability , inventiveness and general mental agility , yet our National Prestige is low , our currency is less than one third of its immediate post-war value against the dollar and can not be explained entirely as a result of market speculation . |
| 6 | Norway has always looked to Sweden for breeding influence . |
| 7 | It should come as no surprise , therefore , to find that most insider participant observation of policing is almost always confined to discussion on management techniques and to the implementation of new systems . |
| 8 | I just had to keep telling myself it would all be worthwhile for both of us : one day she would be flying free , which is not something that always happens to birds of prey bred in captivity . |
| 9 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 10 | Gedge always replied to letters from aspiring editors and made himself readily available for interviews . |
| 11 | Jarvis always talked to people without reserve . |
| 12 | You always talk to people like that , what are you talking about ? |
| 13 | ‘ Do you always respond to offers of help like this ? ’ |
| 14 | In almost all reports in 1942 , this ‘ war weariness ’ and longing for peace , now by no means always linked to expectations of glorious victory and often highly pessimistic , dominates much more strongly than it had done a year earlier . |
| 15 | The meaning of " written standard terms of business 's has already been considered and it seems clear that s3 will always apply to terms in standard terms of trading . |
| 16 | They passed lock-up stores , splendid Georgian terraces , and the stern front of St Mary 's Church with its massive columns which had always seemed to Boxer like the fingers of an upraised hand ordering him to halt , enter and say a prayer . |
| 17 | Some always go for a drink at the pub with their friends on Friday nights , some always go to Bingo on Thursday nights , and so on . |
| 18 | I always go to bed before Tony . |
| 19 | If I 'm in port on a Sunday I always go to church at Tala-Tala . ’ |
| 20 | At the end of it all I felt a great sense of relief and well-being , and now I always go to Norway for treatment . |
| 21 | He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did . |
| 22 | But the ideals of the purist must always come to grief in the devastating vortex of national politics . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I continue ( while we have it , let's press the advantage home ) , ‘ you know as well as I do that these couplings between the separate spheres always come to grief in the end . ’ |
| 24 | I can find out anyway because I can always talk to Andre about it , he 'll know er what 's being done about it , erm |
| 25 | ‘ One of my pupils , Fiona , aged five , always comes to school with her shoes on the wrong feet . |
| 26 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |