Example sentences of "he always [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did . |
| 2 | He always went to Mass fasting and , for the first time that morning , he was aware of feeling weak , even paradoxically a little sick . |
| 3 | He always had to be number one . |
| 4 | He always had to be the one who calmed her down . |
| 5 | ‘ His most annoying habit was that he always had to be right . |
| 6 | He always looked to her like an infant who had grown bigger and bigger and then stopped growing without changing much . |
| 7 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When he was well , he always seemed to be in demand and was proud to have worked on the Salisbury Cathedral restoration in the 1860 s , carried out under the direction of the great Victorian architect , Sir Gilbert Scott . |
| 10 | He always seemed to be picking on me . |
| 11 | And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence . |
| 12 | He always seemed to be on the move … |
| 13 | He always seemed to be ringing from a callbox , on grounds that the walls in his office had ears . |
| 14 | The effect was that he always seemed to be smiling . |
| 15 | He was clever in a bubbling , sideways way that Masklin distrusted ; he always seemed to be bottling up excitement about something , and when he spoke the words always rushed out , with Nisodemus putting ‘ ums ’ in the flow of words so that he could catch his breath without anyone having the chance to interrupt him . |
| 16 | He always seemed to be hanging about , keeping a watchful eye on them . |
| 17 | well he always seemed to me to be a bit of wise guy |
| 18 | Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Peter seized the black document-wallet he always took to meetings . |
| 21 | It was probably true , but she responded scornfully , just as he always did to her . |
| 22 | It seemed that he was extra attentive to me , and I heard via the grapevine that he always referred to me as ‘ the little Waaf with the starry eyes ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ In later years , ’ Philip wrote , ‘ he always referred to me as his father . |
| 24 | He always referred to Saeed as his son , never ours . |
| 25 | Whenever she rode out with Jenkins , he always called to her what they were about to do , whether they were going to trot , or canter , jump or gallop . |
| 26 | He always tried to be reasonable and logical in his arguments , but he knew reason and logic would be wasted on Walter Carew . |
| 27 | Simple as that And he always wanted to be in on any underground culture going . |
| 28 | He always wanted to be the most important thing in the room . |
| 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 always wanted to ‘ inform ’ . |