Example sentences of "but [pron] always [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd threaten that I 'd not get any money the next week , but I always managed to . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | But she always insisted on taking her turn when hounds moved on to the most unlikely draw of the day . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , he was very generous to all his friends , but we always seemed to be in the wrong line . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | But there always seemed to be something else to be done about the farm . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He was my enemy , ’ he was saying , ‘ but he always behaved like a gentleman . |
| 16 | True , he was an All-State footballer which gave him some excitement and fun ; but he always stayed in Neptune with Lorraine and with Mud . |
| 17 | But it always seemed to me more important from L.G. 's point of view than from ours . |
| 18 | Cut off from her , with his father and stepmother both dying while he was still a young man , John several times tried to live with a man he loved , but it always ended in disappointment . |
| 19 | I am aware that there was a steady decrease in the casualty figures and this was welcome to the Harris Offensive and also to the Mighty Eighth , but it always appeared to be that the Luftwaffe were just that one step ahead until , of course , the advent of D-Day and the advance of the Allies on the Continent . |