Example sentences of "but [pron] always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm often asked if I get sick of making presentations and signing autographs but I always answer by saying that the time to worry is when no-one wants me to do these things . |
| 2 | you know , and if anybody else does , they do but I always insist on paying for my drinks . |
| 3 | Yeah , but I always remember in , in the lounge there was , always seemed to be weird smells . |
| 4 | ‘ Marginally , perhaps , but I always come by the street and pick up uncle 's paper from the newsagent on my way . ’ |
| 5 | knock and shove me but I always get in the way . |
| 6 | He 'd threaten that I 'd not get any money the next week , but I always managed to . |
| 7 | ‘ I was not the great campaigning journalist , but I always wanted to be able to give facts , be they favourable or unfavourable to the authorities . ’ |
| 8 | I know , but I always talk about telly or Madonna . |
| 9 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 10 | But you always have to be seeking improvement . |
| 11 | Every , every year four weeks about , well even before that but you always have to s every year |
| 12 | Fine , she always manages to do it , she complains at first that she 's got too much to do , but she always gets in done in time , as well as her own work . |
| 13 | There must have been something specially feline about that particular note , because Gautier carried out experiments to see if he could fool the cat , but she always responded with her critical paw precisely when the note reached high A. |
| 14 | But she always insisted on taking her turn when hounds moved on to the most unlikely draw of the day . |
| 15 | I mean she could come up to us , but she always seems to be rushing about , here , there and everywhere do n't she ? |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , he was very generous to all his friends , but we always seemed to be in the wrong line . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Boro may have lost a couple of home games , but we always seem to be the whipping boys who allow teams to regain their form . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But we always tried to be more sympathetic than most , and went out of our way to work with the people who wanted to use our stuff . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's nearly a year younger than I am , but we always got on very well . |
| 20 | But there always seemed to be something else to be done about the farm . |
| 21 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
| 22 | I sometimes used to help him out with double dates , but they always ended with both girls squabbling over yours truly and Stuart sulking in the corner and displaying all the charisma of a limpet . |
| 23 | I know , but he always sits on Emma and |
| 24 | But he always returned to the streets of Paris for inspiration , recording aspects of city life long since lost ; finding both joy and humour amidst scenes of poverty . |
| 25 | People who did n't like him said he was very sarcastic , but he always seemed to me to be a most sensitive and competent man . |
| 26 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 27 | A small trainer like me has a job to tick over , let alone make a living , but he always comes to the rescue . |
| 28 | If ever I was asked what Nigel ‘ did ’ , I would reply that he was a designer , or sometimes I 'd say an inventor , but he always spoke of himself as an engineer . |
| 29 | But he always wanted to be the one in control , the top dog , to be the one who could take off on a whim and relate his volatility to democratic individual freedom to do as one pleased — a special privilege to which only Americans were supposed to be entitled . |
| 30 | ‘ He was my enemy , ’ he was saying , ‘ but he always behaved like a gentleman . |