Example sentences of "always [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always expected to find a rival ; but there was no rival , unless you count Emma Bovary . |
| 2 | The juniors were very earnest and keen cricketers and I always found umpiring a ticklish business as I do not know the rules . |
| 3 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 4 | ‘ I was on the other end of the question for most of my life as a British Telecom customer manager , and I always tried to see the view of the underdog , because there is just a chance he might be right , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ I always tried to do the best or what I thought was best . |
| 6 | He insisted that the least he could do would be to pay for the coffee , and he always tried to do the least that he could . |
| 7 | But as soon as we hit with something that was n't what we were about , we always tried to get the band back to what we thought it should be — three guitars and drums played loud by four New York bums . |
| 8 | I always tried to understand the man and I never had any problems with him . |
| 9 | Somehow he always seemed to give a thoroughly professional performance — quiet , controlled and extremely efficient . ’ |
| 10 | The holiday began tomorrow — in fact it had as good as started already , since Bill was staying at home — and holidays always seemed to point the problem more sharply . |
| 11 | Even with University College Cork — whom he captained to a Munster League title in 1985 — and with Dolphin , the man over in Cork Constitution always seemed to hold the edge . |
| 12 | I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away . |
| 13 | Or was he addicted to the game Striker as a kid where the goalie adopted a similar position ( mine always seemed to do a Sprake and throw the ball back into my own net ) . |
| 14 | In the movies they always seemed to make the kidnapped party drive , but Maxim thought about Dann driving his — Maxim 's — car into the first acacia while he watched the gun , which seemed to have hypnotised him . |
| 15 | But it seemed that Sister Benedicta must sin a lot because she always seemed to get the dirty jobs . |
| 16 | Not for him the histrionics which always seemed to accompany a Mansell win last year . |
| 17 | Those old Andy Hardy movies always seemed to have a scene where a bunch of American teenagers would be sitting around in an old barn or something wondering where to stage their amateur dramatics . |
| 18 | Off camera , we always seemed to have a laugh . |
| 19 | She became school librarian , and always seemed to have a book in her hand . |
| 20 | A girl who wore her long dark hair loose , who practically lived in jeans and sweatshirts , and who always seemed to have a couple of paint stains on her somewhere because she was trying to scrape a living by producing exquisitely detailed illustrations for books . |
| 21 | Cranston always seemed to have a fear of small boys . |
| 22 | She often forgot how handsome Georg was , especially lately when he always seemed to have a scowl on his face . |
| 23 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 24 | Davie always seemed to have the best girls , and none of them seemed to complain . |
| 25 | We always strove to get a solution that was acceptable all round . |
| 26 | Besides , he always began creating a character from the voice . |
| 27 | We always enjoyed watching the Mah Jong players too , in the cafés and restaurants , and seated at tables on the waterfront . |
| 28 | I always enjoyed walking the full length of the street to check how the other shops were faring . |
| 29 | When everyone first subbed , the local mailer machine always chose to use the long form ( eg ) . |
| 30 | He always feared to inherit the Khanate . ’ |