Example sentences of "always [vb pp] i " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Your damned cheerfulness has always annoyed me . ’
2 But Tosca has always fascinated me .
3 As I 've said before , falconry has always fascinated me , and I hope I 'm going to be able to make my living at it one day .
4 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 .
5 I was very unhappy there , away from the love and warmth Madame had always given me , and the love affair that accompanied the change soon turned cold : Alan exhibited a certain kind of treachery , casually throwing me over for someone else who ‘ was better in bed ’ .
6 But they had never mentioned these despicable attacks to me ; they had kept cheerful faces and shown me all the love and care they had always given me , their prodigal son .
7 They 've always given me tremendous support and , when I 've been able to in a busy schedule , I 've reciprocated .
8 There 's no problems with York , they always given me a good service in the past .
9 I did n't much like it , mice and such like have always given me the creeps , but I did feel sorry for it being shut up .
10 I was officially the gardener , but had come to fulfil also roles of secretary , comptroller of household , translator , interpreter , and stool-pigeon ( which they had always intended me to be ) .
11 She 's always hated me .
12 She 's always hated me . ’
13 ‘ But he 's always hated me having properties , independently . ’
14 and his younger brother had always hated me because Tom had always ranted down his throat , Why ca n't you sell and organize things like Richard does ?
15 He had always disliked me , although he pretended to like me , but now he began to suspect his wife of visiting me privately , and he became jealous .
16 Things had always attracted me , far more so than people .
17 The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange .
18 I was very happy ; and if sometimes the familiarities in our relationship were of an irritating nature ( like the way he teased me , as he had always teased me , about my sticking-out ears , for instance ) I pushed them aside and refused to acknowledge them — even when they were quite important , the sort of things on which the nagging small voice was once wont to pounce as reasons against any positive commitment .
19 Now I had always supposed I had travelled very little , restricted as I am by my responsibilities in the house , but of course , over time , one does make various excursions for one professional reason or another , and it would seem I have become much more acquainted with those neighbouring districts than I had realized .
20 ‘ 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 . ’
21 He has always impressed me as a man of great good humour , and with a wonderful fund of stories .
22 His gallops have always impressed me but after a couple of disappointing runs on the flat his attentions were turned to the all-weather surfaces .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 ‘ Shearer is a player who 's always impressed me , ’ said Souness .
27 ‘ Shearer is a player who 's always impressed me , ’ said Souness .
28 ‘ I 've always felt I was never popular with the Scottish crowd .
29 His face had lost its boyish roundness , and there was the debated moustache — I had always said I did n't fancy him with one — quite splendid , and at once my prejudice vanished .
30 I 'VE ALWAYS SAID I CLIMB MUNROS EVERYONE I GO CLIMBING MUNROS WITH
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