Example sentences of "always [verb] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must know how to give or take his hand and always to acknowledge his presence as an equal partner in the dance . |
| 2 | Turning up like the proverbial bad penny , acting for all the world like the Mountie who always got his man — or , in her case , woman . |
| 3 | The bad man always got his comeuppance , the hero got the girl . |
| 4 | Milosu had always disliked his nephew , and he thought this would be a first-class chance to get rid of him and take his farm . |
| 5 | ‘ Nandie ’ had always enjoyed his two-pennyworth of rum , having ‘ … always declared , and on several occasions proved , that if he venture three-pennyworth , intoxication resulted ’ . |
| 6 | Like he always has his hair cut by the same man . |
| 7 | Of Dr Cummings , the panel has this to say : ‘ He always has his work on public health uppermost in his mind ’ . |
| 8 | He always has his party on the last free night before production . ’ |
| 9 | You know , he normally always has his camera . |
| 10 | and he always has his camera . |
| 11 | He was actually no more than a deputy , but John always used him as a sounding board for his new ideas and always considered his advice very carefully . |
| 12 | Other nice expressions include an evil stare , ‘ schwing ! ’ ( if you have seen Wayne 's World ! ) and he 's always mopping his forehead . |
| 13 | Critics always say his work 's ‘ austere ’ or ‘ puritanical ’ because he likes bare raked stages and theatres with their brickwork sticking out all over the place and no props . |
| 14 | Andrew Morton has always claimed his book was written with the help of Diana 's friends — not the princess herself . |
| 15 | He always clenched his jaw and a nerve jumped to the side of his left eye . |
| 16 | In contrast , turbulent confusion has always surrounded his theory of labour supply . |
| 17 | Leonard was a very close observer , and collector , of this scene ; always keeping his hand in with his guitar , writing much of his early poetry to the sound of its music : the emerging Nashville sound , Muddy Waters , Chuck Berry , Big Joe Turner , The Drifters , The Clovers , Guitar Slim and , most of all , Ray Charles , whose first hit , ‘ Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand ’ in 1951 , marked the onset of an astonishing career . |
| 18 | But Mr Richardson has always protested his innocence . |
| 19 | But Carter has always protested his innocence and in letters from prison , constantly questions the evidence used to convict him . |
| 20 | The only thing that ‘ rang bells ’ for him was his own consciousness — Djwa 's ‘ experience ’ — and most of all the inner experiences which had always dominated his vision — his ‘ inner landscape ’ . |
| 21 | He always eats HIS school dinners . |
| 22 | Hallin always recognised his role would be specific , but felt he still had one to play . |
| 23 | Dr Foley had always seen his son Aengus as going into medical research when the time came . |
| 24 | Finally , though all drivers are at heart egotists and publicity-seekers ( it is part of the game ) , James always played his life right out in the open : sex life , life style and all . |
| 25 | Although Max is a jazz genius , fame always eludes him , he always loses his fee and ends each episode walking down a lonely street into the sunset , consoled by his friend Alto Ego who loudly plays a mournful tune . |
| 26 | ‘ A bad hammer always blames his workman' ’ . ' |
| 27 | His fascination with tales and story-telling is regularly linked to a formalistic relish of complication for its own sake , and Barth has always detached his use of plot from mimesis . |
| 28 | He 'd always got , he always put his hand in his pocket wou could n't he ? |
| 29 | Leon always opened his door after that and , standing in the same spot where I could see him , he would play . |
| 30 | But Ken did n't always follow his advice . |