Example sentences of "he always [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless the Madeiran is addressing a close friend or member of his family , he always uses the third person in speech . |
| 2 | A small , happy man with a white beard , he always wore the traditional grocers ' apron . |
| 3 | He always wore the same light-coloured clothes , matching his light-coloured hair . |
| 4 | If Adam ever got as far as masturbating , and naturally he sometimes did , he always had the feeling afterwards that his teeth were loose . |
| 5 | The reader feels sympathetic towards him as he always had the burden of Lennie on his back , Lennie , who always said , |
| 6 | He knew what he felt , but he always kept the knowledge at bay . |
| 7 | He always paid by credit card and he always kept the receipts for his accountant . |
| 8 | He always signs the expenses form in front of the claimant . |
| 9 | Lord Thomas is the perfect gentleman , he always licks the mares afterwards . ’ |
| 10 | Even so it may be that regarding each individual , he is less likely successfully to follow right reasons which apply to him anyway if left to himself than if he always obeys the directives of a just government including those which are morally reprehensible . |
| 11 | But being a rebel at heart he always modelled the battleships on the Potemkin , and in the corner of every panel he painted a little red devil with a pitchfork and a knowing grin . |
| 12 | He always looked the man most likely to score . |
| 13 | He always drank the same brand . |
| 14 | He always plays the draw . |
| 15 | On their visits to St Matthew 's he always left the church , mysteriously present one moment and the next gone , when the first members of the congregation began to trickle in . |
| 16 | He always left the newspaper at home in the mornings for Sara . |
| 17 | A professional decorator told me years ago that when carrying out domestic painting , he always asked the lady of the house the shade she would like for the finished coat . |
| 18 | At home , whenever I visited , he always seemed the same docile , attractive child sitting silently watching TV in the impeccably tidy and attractive furnished living room of the very small , terraced house . |
| 19 | It was said that he always got the man a club did n't want to sell , but when he signed Ted Taylor from Oldham Athletic he got the man the club might not have wanted to sell . |
| 20 | It was said of him that he always got the player that a club did n't want to sell , and the Jack transfer was a classic case in point . |
| 21 | He always got the profits but never the blame . |
| 22 | But he always got the job done . |
| 23 | He always attended the Durham miners , gala , which was the festivity and political demonstration of the mining community , and in 1955 preached them the gala sermon by invitation of the miners . |
| 24 | " He always answers the phone . |
| 25 | He always demanded the best food available and the use of our big room every Sunday night for gambling with his cronies . |
| 26 | the truth erm , oh you never , never hold back and make be known in God 's name the kingdom , he always told the truth whether it was popular or not , that 's really , so erm come on you , are you going out with Clare , come on , hey , come on , come on Pip , go on , go on |
| 27 | He remembered now ; he always felt the same by this stage of every visit he made to the Dysons ' house in the daytime , while the children were about . |
| 28 | He always rejected the hellraiser label but he began living up to his image when , in 1953 , he embarked on a drunken affair with Vivien Leigh while filming Elephant Walk in Ceylon . |
| 29 | Again , he always savoured the bizarre , eccentric experience — it would be useful material . |
| 30 | He always checked the mechanism before firing because the Ruger/MAC Mark I was now vintage and occasionally liable to jam . |