Example sentences of "always [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as happened more frequently , she did not , she let her view be known , even though it almost always led to a quarrel . |
| 2 | I was walking across the garden after breakfast , enjoying the clear wintry air , when suddenly my body was again torn by those indescribable feelings which I always experienced after a dose of the drug . |
| 3 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 4 | ‘ He was my enemy , ’ he was saying , ‘ but he always behaved like a gentleman . |
| 5 | ‘ He always changed for the evening meal regardless of whether anyone was coming or not ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I was coming home with three lovely black horses which we always used on the road ; and I used to glory in trimming them up , because they wore the worsted — red , white and blue — and they used to look lovely . |
| 7 | The photograph she always used as a bookmark fluttered out of it . |
| 8 | The toisechs ' and mormaers ' wives and daughters and sisters who always moved with the court would be waiting , and eager for news . |
| 9 | Uncle Walter always phoned in the evening . |
| 10 | Morale always rose after a struggle ; I would never have to go over the same ground again . |
| 11 | I always objected to the idea that everything is predetermined and that we have no choice . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to hate even visiting South Wales , because the idea of going back always seemed like an admission of defeat to me . |
| 13 | Once Frank Connor had left the certainties of life in County Limerick , he always seemed like an actor who had wandered into the wrong play . |
| 14 | ‘ For 30 years I always painted on the spot , even in deep snow . |
| 15 | Watching him secretly from under her lashes , she revelled in his evident pleasure , and could n't help wondering whether he was driving so smoothly because he did n't want to wake her … or because he always drove like a man making love . |
| 16 | There was no kitchen but then we always ate at the market . |
| 17 | We always played before the Queen at Christmas . |
| 18 | It always banged on the desk top , each morning , before he remembered to tuck it below his tie . |
| 19 | The crucial ingredient that turned his clothes into something outstandingly elegant always came from the woman wearing them . |
| 20 | Society always came before the individual and determined what he thought he wanted . |
| 21 | Something good always happened with the wind skew-whiff . |
| 22 | To begin with the little-uns looked on Piggy as their parental figure because he always acted like an adult in their eyes and tried to make them laugh . |
| 23 | But Trevor always arrived in the morning as if he 'd not had a drink . |
| 24 | I almost always cooked inside the tent , following the example of the Polar explorers — I figured that the danger was minimal . |
| 25 | On a slope high above Wigtown Bay in Dumfries and Galloway , nearly always fretted by a breeze or whistling more stridently in the wind , is an especially fine duo of 5,000-year-old tombs called Cairnholy . |
| 26 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |
| 27 | Exactly how and when the first state emerged in the history of human society is a problem impossible to resolve ; and for that matter it is by no means inconceivable that embryonic forms of the state always existed as an inheritance from animal societies . |
| 28 | We knew she would n't go near the road because she was so frightened of people and movement that she always stuck to the security and space of the golf course . |
| 29 | Yeah , well John always swore by a diet whether he I do n't know . |
| 30 | What did bother him was that in his duel within McLaren with Prost , the Frenchman , six years his junior , always started with an advantage . |