Example sentences of "always [vb past] [to-vb] [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 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 .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 ‘ I always tried to do the best or what I thought was best .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I always tried to understand the man and I never had any problems with him .
8 Somehow he always seemed to give a thoroughly professional performance — quiet , controlled and extremely efficient . ’
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 ) .
13 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 .
14 But it seemed that Sister Benedicta must sin a lot because she always seemed to get the dirty jobs .
15 Not for him the histrionics which always seemed to accompany a Mansell win last year .
16 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 .
17 Off camera , we always seemed to have a laugh .
18 She became school librarian , and always seemed to have a book in her hand .
19 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 .
20 Cranston always seemed to have a fear of small boys .
21 She often forgot how handsome Georg was , especially lately when he always seemed to have a scowl on his face .
22 ‘ 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 .
23 Davie always seemed to have the best girls , and none of them seemed to complain .
24 We always strove to get a solution that was acceptable all round .
25 When everyone first subbed , the local mailer machine always chose to use the long form ( eg ) .
26 He always feared to inherit the Khanate . ’
27 Such a simple idea , I always thought to have a wall of panelled doors that folded back .
28 He also always managed to see the good side of a person , and would defend them as he saw fit ( ie Rodolpho ) which shows a very christian type of behaviour .
29 Considering that he started his adult life as a wine and spirits salesman , he had certainly learnt the art of showmanship : whatever the fluctuating state of the theatre , he always managed to pay an enormous wage bill for his large casts .
30 Her eyes innocently wide , she gave a slow smile , because she had known it was a viewing platform , of course ; and he knew that she knew , which meant that he was teasing her , and that he was one of those people who always managed to keep a straight face .
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