Example sentences of "always [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Well we 've come along the island of Stronsay now and at er the post office called Samson 's Lane and name which has always fascinated me really and er the sub-postmaster in charge here is Dennis .
2 He always intimidates me hugely .
3 What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured .
4 What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured .
5 What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured .
6 ‘ What has always impressed me deeply … is the blind despotism of fate … the terrible , indifferent Fate , this tyrant Chance , slays or spares , mutilates or rewards , annihilates or passes by without herd , without thought , with absolute blankness of purpose , aim or passion . ’
7 Always pushing me away , ’ he went on , his words muffled against her skin .
8 ‘ Playing minor characters has always interested me more than playing heroes .
9 ‘ The Globe always sees me O.K. when I give 'em anything .
10 I lay on his bed later and strove to want him , strove to feel even a faint shadow of the sensations that had always engulfed me before , when I had known they must be frustrated .
11 She always encouraged me academically ; she wanted me to become a lawyer .
12 My brothers would n't let me worry about money — they 'd always see me all right . ’
13 Leaning forward in the rattan chair , on the after deck , he said , ‘ I tell you , Doctor ’ — he always addressed me thus , showing the respect of one professional man for another ‘ in over thirty years at sea I 've become a specialist in islands .
14 ‘ But my father always taught me never to be afraid of pointing out the obvious .
15 Now Gilberd seemed eminently sane — I know the type so well from my schooldays , and that type always kept me perfectly well under control .
16 At last I understood the fanaticism which during my schooldays had always struck me as so forced .
17 Armin Jordan is still somewhat under-rated in this country , yet has always struck me as one of the most intuitively musical conductors around .
18 ‘ I hate cocaine , ’ he said finally , and he surprised me by saying it for the Maggot had always struck me as one of life 's rebels .
19 Even in its earlier LP format this had always struck me as one of the very finest of the Hall é/Pye; recordings , and now I know why .
20 That had always struck me as pretty morbid , but this was the season of goodwill to all men .
21 always ask me never never just let it go and think , Oh well perhaps I 'll understand it later .
22 He was a gentle lad and always treated me well .
23 Until now , he has always left me further and further behind when I chased him .
24 And one of the things which always disturbs me most about Russell is his emphasis upon pity , what moves him so is the emotion of pity for other people .
25 It always strikes me as odd that we are incredibly specific in our lives about the small things , ordering a sandwich for instance : we order type of bread , filling , relish , seasonings and extras .
26 And John meantime seeks always to dismiss me as incompetent and neurotic ( probably , as people wiser than me , such as his own lawyer , say , he does this to suit his own ends and to give himself a good press and to live within his own fantasies and eccentricities . )
27 The thought of the bust always struck me as hilarious .
28 I personally never rated Ickx as a driver or as a human being and Regazzoni , though a great step upwards from the slick gigolo type that Ickx liked to play , like a second-rate understudy for Jean-Paul Belmondo , always struck me as stronger on brawn and stubbornness than on brain .
29 It always struck me as ironic that these buildings , which had been designed to make that present appear futuristic , now served so well to make this present look exactly like the recent past .
30 I had other games , but that one always struck me as one of my more mature inventions ; symbolic somehow , and with a nice blend of callousness and irony .
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