Example sentences of "i 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 always had to be polite and caring . ’ |
| 3 | My mother , too , was a science teacher and I was good at science , and I always continued with that line because partly of the family background and partly of my own interests . |
| 4 | I always got on well with Paul . |
| 5 | I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’ |
| 6 | I always looked for the kitemark when I was buying things . |
| 7 | Even in the suburbs of Auckland , New Zealand 's largest city , there are areas of native bush where it is possible to work undisturbed from dawn until dusk , finding a peace of mind and in turn concentration which I always yearned for in Suffolk . |
| 8 | ‘ Come home quickly , ’ I always said to him . |
| 9 | ‘ I always said to you — do anything you want to him , but do n't kill him . |
| 10 | I always said to them I would much prefer to supply fifty per cent of the monthly usage , spread it out throughout the year . |
| 11 | Steve , I always said to Steven if we have a kid I said I hope it looks like me I said but I hope it got your temperament come out exactly wrong . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ In the early days I always dreamed of going to the Olympics , doing well and then eventually turning professional . |
| 13 | It was the Colonel himself who taught me how to shoot , and I always went with him for the fishing . |
| 14 | Nevertheless I always accepted with gratitude the milk which the shepherd offered me , as the expression of his love , but since , being pure spirit , I do not need the milk , I shared it with this little fox , who is very fond of milk . " |
| 15 | ‘ I always felt as if you rode in on a white charger and saved me from my loneliness . |
| 16 | I mean , I always felt like that but this time was worse . |
| 17 | I always erred on being over-cautious at the last , but never faulted there so obviously my caution paid off ! |
| 18 | I always slept on board . |
| 19 | It 's hard to tell , cos I always seemed to be awake , but then I remember waking up with a jump when this voice comes over the loud speaker . |
| 20 | In his ‘ A Study of English poetry ’ , which ran in The English Review from March to June 1912 , Newbolt refers to Pound as ‘ a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest ’ . |
| 21 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 22 | I am , I always read like that |
| 23 | ‘ Playing with D'Arcy has been a real education because up until she joined the band I always thought about rock in male terms . |
| 24 | The mighty Thames had dignity and sober beauty but , despite Wordsworth 's sonnet , I always thought of it as business-like , the powerful engine-room of the city . |
| 25 | The bulbs were n't just scattered , but were arranged in the correct patterns — so that if you looked up you could see ( if you knew which star was which ) , up there amongst all the dragons , bulls and poisonous scuttlers of the Heavens , right in the centre you could see the constellation which I always thought of as being our special one , a solitary man walking with his faithful dog , the high summer constellation of Orion , the Hunter , stretched and striding above us . |
| 26 | He was pressed for a date and told ‘ before tonight I always thought of you as a child — but you 're not . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I always thought of ‘ Sonnet ’ as an art poem , ’ said Joe . |
| 28 | I always thought of it as a loan . |
| 29 | Aunt Ilsa was a large , loud woman of forbiddingly intense bonhomie ; I always thought of her as being the most remote outpost of the McHoan clan ( unless you counted the still purportedly peripatetic Uncle Rory ) ; a stout bulwark of a woman who for me at least — had always personified the dishevelled ramifications of our family . |
| 30 | Being a great fan of classical violin music , I always marvelled at how players such as Itzhak Perlman , Schlomo Mintz , Jascha Heifetz , Isaac Stern and others would play ( with seemingly little effort ) long and fast arpeggio passages . |