Example sentences of "[pers pn] always [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother , too , was a science teacher and I was good at science , and I always continued with that line because partly of the family background and partly of my own interests . |
| 2 | In his ‘ A Study of English poetry ’ , which ran in The English Review from March to June 1912 , Newbolt refers to Pound as ‘ a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest ’ . |
| 3 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 4 | I left Trieste the following morning for Mavhinje and the house of my Aunt Ema , whom I always remembered with real affection . |
| 5 | As she cycled up to the ornate porch she always thought of chivalrous knights attending maidens dressed in high , pointed hats and long sweeping gowns . |
| 6 | Lady Selvedge then rose and made her little speech — the one she always made on these occasions , for the ‘ cause ’ , whether Church , Conservative Party or District Nursing Association , was always a good one and it was safe to urge her hearers to spend just a little more than they thought they could afford , however relative the amount might be . |
| 7 | She managed to conceal the physical revulsion she always felt from close contact with this man . |
| 8 | I asked her if she always painted with such alacrity and her answer came as something of a relief , ‘ I like to enjoy painting , so ofttimes I paint much more slowly , it 's like eating , you do n't want to rush through a great meal ’ . |
| 9 | Right now he was groping Joanna who had taken her top off , as she always did on these occasions . |
| 10 | She always worked in good places , in the West End ; the hands she did were in Vogue once . |
| 11 | In the Berlin orchestra we always looked for greater knowledge and better players but maintaining standards is always going to be difficult . |
| 12 | Because of our volunteer system and our love of the job I think we always succeeded in this aim . |
| 13 | We always depended on free transfers and Nigel has made some super captures . |
| 14 | I remember Christmas Eve 1930 , when we went as we always did on that day to the High Street to look at the lighted shops , seeing a little girl in a tattered dress and with bare feet , her nose pressed at the toy-shop window . |
| 15 | The grass they always lay on parched yellow . |
| 16 | I sometimes used to help him out with double dates , but they always ended with both girls squabbling over yours truly and Stuart sulking in the corner and displaying all the charisma of a limpet . |
| 17 | ‘ Wherever we aimed , they always fired in another direction , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 18 | A very fine thing , and you know until er until the day I left in nineteen forty two they always referred to these chaps in the forties like say I was , er a as being er , Ooh he 's a man . |
| 19 | He always went to Mass fasting and , for the first time that morning , he was aware of feeling weak , even paradoxically a little sick . |
| 20 | He drove as he always drove in those days , well , but far too fast . |
| 21 | j He always insisted on fresh fish . |
| 22 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |
| 23 | He knew that he always operated at full efficiency when driven by anger ; from now on , he was suddenly sure , he was in control of this bloody conference . |
| 24 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 25 | He always remained in close touch with the French Protestant community in London and many of his works have bilingual titles . |
| 26 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 27 | He always rose to such occasions with confident decisiveness and calm authority . |