Example sentences of "he always [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He always went to Mass fasting and , for the first time that morning , he was aware of feeling weak , even paradoxically a little sick .
2 He drove as he always drove in those days , well , but far too fast .
3 j He always insisted on fresh fish .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 He always remained in close touch with the French Protestant community in London and many of his works have bilingual titles .
8 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 .
9 He always rose to such occasions with confident decisiveness and calm authority .
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