Example sentences of "always [verb] to she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always referred to her as ‘ the old bat ’ , or occasionally as ‘ that hard bitch ’ . |
| 2 | Her family had always referred to her as the ‘ egghead ’ . |
| 3 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |
| 4 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 5 | And : ‘ I hear people are always writing to her about the deaths of their hearts . ’ |
| 6 | Mabel looked astonished ; any event in her life , no matter how mundane , always came to her as a great surprise . |
| 7 | Men had always talked to her about need , and about love as well , but in a voice that did n't differentiate the two . |
| 8 | ‘ We have made Ygelda the new Steward , and she says it will be nothing new to her for Gwion was always running to her for help . ’ |
| 9 | He always looked to her like an infant who had grown bigger and bigger and then stopped growing without changing much . |
| 10 | They had returned noisily to life after the journey , consoled by spreading the contents of their suitcases , which always looked to her like carefully collected rubbish , old dresses bought from barrows , ratty bits of fur , crumpled and disorderly history notes , about their new quarters . |