Example sentences of "always [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I explained , as gently as possible , that my mother was very old-fashioned and always checked up on me in the morning . |
| 2 | I think of all those using this channel : – people who gave generously , of their good money ; people who gave their physical strength ; people who gave limitless time ( even their annual leave from work ) ; people who managed a little time after work ; people who baked ; people who prayed ; the member who supplied the entire plant stall ; people who counted ; the little girl who devised an amusing quiz as her ‘ channel ’ ; people who served , and often withstood the cold winds of George Street ; people who used their artistic talents for communication ; people who lovingly restored the Church afterwards ; our engineer , who invented a ‘ chair-lift ’ for us , and then , literally , put his shoulder to the wheel – and the bright spark who had fired him with the notion ; and finally and uniquely , the couple in Trinity , part of whose house is always given over to storing books so that this channel may be kept open . |
| 3 | The outer scales lifted in the process of penetration are not always smoothed down again completely when you change hair colour or texture , and this causes porosity . |
| 4 | Before , she had always jumped up excitedly , but this time she stayed on the settee . |
| 5 | I 've always travelled around by road , and I 'll keep it that way . |
| 6 | It is not enough to change to a new paragraph at intervals just because you know that a block of text is always broken up in this way . |
| 7 | Official energy pronouncements , whatever their other shortcomings , have hitherto always fallen back on ‘ national security ’ as their ultimate justification . |
| 8 | ‘ No one is ever forced to be in our films , but they have always queued up to appear , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Together they walked across the carpet ; a splendid Second Empire Aubusson which was always rolled up for the parties . |
| 10 | Normalising factors were employed to ensure that the probabilities always added up to 1 . |
| 11 | All the furniture in Mr. Preston 's accommodation — is to be his with the exception of the old mahogany bureau which I believe you , Sara , have always looked on as your special possession . " |
| 12 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
| 13 | The pessimistic thing was , the Hobbesians always looked back to the past , some golden age of order in the past , you know , when , when people knew what to do and er , and er , things were right as it were , and th they tend to want to restore some ideal state of order and authority that existed in the past , which was much better than now , because civilization has gone to the dogs , and been corrupted and so on . |
| 14 | But when a High King or Queen is born , they have always come up to Tara 's gates , and sung him — or her — into the world . |
| 15 | No cos we was my friend Pat said to me oh she said , cos everyone have always come up to my house Christmas night , I 've always had the mess and that , she said oh she said , cos we 've got a house now come down to me , I said oh great , I can clean up and every Boxing morning it 's always been the same hangover , fucking |
| 16 | I think they have always come over as they really are , but there must be times when they want to tell people to sod off . |
| 17 | The answer is partly that the vote in Rhineland-Palatinate , which lies just below Bonn , is now out of the way ; partly that he may regain some of his lost esteem in eastern Germany , where voters are heavily for Berlin ; but not least that Mr Kohl has almost always come back fighting after getting a slap in the face . |
| 18 | ‘ People are always trying to put me down and I have always come back better . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She has always come back — she loves Anna very much . |
| 20 | As far as can be made out , systems of fingerspelling have always come about by hearing invention . |
| 21 | They 've always come out , but they always do then check while they 're there to see whether the property concerned is on the list of private , adopted or unadopted and there can be a mixture . |
| 22 | Joos ( 1964 : 52 ) exemplifies an approach which proposes two separate verb forms — the " infinitive " , which is always preceded by to , and the " presentative " , which is not . |
| 23 | We can now account moreover for the observation made by Poutsma ( 1923 : 41 ) that a perfect infinitive is always preceded by to when used with a verb of perception : ( 50 ) Mr Lorry observed a great change to have come over the doctor ( and not *observed a great change have come over the doctor ) . |
| 24 | These sorts of books have such an excellent hardback sale which is not always carried through to the same extent with the paperback . |
| 25 | But despite his personal problems , in true show business style Les Dawson always carried on working , hiding his own sadness and suffering to make others laugh . |
| 26 | Screening is always carried out in an academic , conscientious and rational manner . ’ |
| 27 | Farmer Colin points out that this selfless operation is always carried out with a complete lack of regard for personal safety and reminds the committee that Josh has several times fallen off his load just outside the King 's Head . |
| 28 | With Norwegian jacquard , the colour changes , whether made with the colour changer or manually with the jacquard claw , are always carried out at the left side of the machine . |
| 29 | In other words , syntactic analysis is always carried out but it may not be used in the interpretation of any particular sentence . |
| 30 | At the end of the discussion you summarise the points that have been raised : staff time is being wasted collating lengthy documents , the quality of photostat is not totally satisfactory , repairs are not always carried out promptly . |