Example sentences of "they always [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew it by the way their eyes glowed green and yellow in the dark and because they always hopped in my direction in spite of how much I hated them . |
| 2 | They always camped at Dartmeet in summer . |
| 3 | Miss Ellis ' eyebrows launched into the twitchy dance they always seemed to at the mention of the words , ‘ my mother . ’ |
| 4 | They always seemed to be beyond the next corner or in the next room . |
| 5 | I had to speak to accountants , asking for information and so on , and they always seemed to be out at lunch , whether it was 10 in the morning or five in the afternoon . |
| 6 | Perhaps Bidault , on a visit to the US , gave the best idea of French intentions when he said that Marshall Aid would make it possible for France ‘ to avoid the abandonment of French positions ’ and even where there were the generous intentions that the US had hoped for , one way or another they always seemed to be frustrated . |
| 7 | ’ When the children spoke to her , they always began with ‘ Why … |
| 8 | By keeping it more or less behind them and to their left they could be sure of travelling north-west which was the direction they believed right but the inequalities of the ground often forced them out of their way and although they always returned to their line they had to guess what corrections to make to allow for obstacles . |
| 9 | They always passed at about the same time , right after midnight , and it was something he liked to watch , the way other people watch sunsets or the ocean . |
| 10 | They always had to be constrained in public , Sundays or not ; and if anything they were less so on Sunday , when sometimes their clothes were pretty , and at least were seldom black , navy blue or grey as the men 's were invariably … . |
| 11 | They always had in America that sort of er something er that against colonialism you see . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had been about four years old , and although he was younger than my brother , they always got on very well together and were heartbroken when the time came for them to part . |
| 14 | The Hoxne farms , they always went in fours , and the Billingford farms , too , always went in fours . ’ |
| 15 | The grass they always lay on parched yellow . |
| 16 | Was n't that what they always said at the Lab ? |
| 17 | The Commando sitting next to him looking at me remarked , ‘ The bombs never land on this mortar , Piper , They always burst among the squaddies somewhere else . ’ |
| 18 | When they were away , there was always the worry that they would never come back but when they got home , they always brought with them gossip of other places and other people . |
| 19 | No and to be fair they 've never set themselves up to be that way at all , they always wished to be one of the crowd as well . |
| 20 | He does n't move , then suddenly his head gives a small jerk forward and his eyes buck wide open , the way they always used to when he 'd make some incoherent claim to lineage to the gods . |
| 21 | Well there was a bit there where they always used to camp . |
| 22 | They always appeared in a ‘ special comedy show ’ on Christmas night — and perhaps the creaking and overfed somnolence of that evening was the best state in which to watch their predictable routines . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Wherever we aimed , they always fired in another direction , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 25 | As Fidelma got Agatha into bed , they looked at each other with honesty as they always did in the end . |
| 26 | They would be going off in the boat together because that is what they always did in the mornings , to return in half an hour . |
| 27 | The words of the Spell picked just that moment to surface from the depths of his mind , as they always did in time of crisis . |
| 28 | A very fine thing , and you know until er until the day I left in nineteen forty two they always referred to these chaps in the forties like say I was , er a as being er , Ooh he 's a man . |
| 29 | The Far Eastern bank interviewed took an entirely different line ; they always worked with the large international firms , claiming that neither they nor candidates had any confidence in the smaller firms . |
| 30 | ‘ They always spoke to us in English . ’ |