Example sentences of "always [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ For 30 years I always painted on the spot , even in deep snow . |
| 3 | It always banged on the desk top , each morning , before he remembered to tuck it below his tie . |
| 4 | His help on the other hand had been a short , rude young man with a baseball cap glued to his head , whose greetings always verged on the cheaply insulting : ‘ Hey-hey-hey ! |
| 5 | Whatever he knew , he always looked on the black side , judged her and found her wanting . |
| 6 | Sunday was the first and chief day of the week , and saints ' days always fell on the same date , as did some of the major festivals such as Christmas , which was celebrated on VIII Kal Jan ( 25 December ) . |
| 7 | She always insisted on the active and determining role of the child , rejecting absolutely any analogy between the growth of a child and the growth of plants because of the power of the gardener to prune a plant . |
| 8 | Men like that always insisted on the last word . |
| 9 | He never came in very late , always by twelve , and he always tripped on the doorstep from garage to kitchen hall , and he always yelled out complaining , ‘ Why the hell do n't you keep a light on ? ’ |
| 10 | He felt as he always did on the moor , and especially on this spot and on Big Allen , peaceful , without care , without self almost , at one with nature and the past , and as if nothing that happened down there could hurt or vex him any more . |
| 11 | Gerald was talking very fast and fluently , as he always did on the subject of money , but Charles reckoned he had got the gist . |
| 12 | He was gazing into his make-up mirror , playing the same game that he always did on the monitor screens in television studios — in other words , deciding which was his best profile . |
| 13 | A bottle of this smelly purple mixture always stood on the shelf above the sink in the bathroom alongside all the toothbrushes , and a very vigorous scalp massage with OIL OF VIOLETS took place daily after shaving was completed . |
| 14 | Two telegraphists always travelled on the train . |