Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] always [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Houghton Band provided the music and an admirable caller who managed to direct even those of us with two left feet through an amazing number of turns and convolutions which somehow always managed to bring us back to our starting point . |
| 2 | Some of them offered help , but more usually they were there to ask for favours — which nearly always meant money . |
| 3 | They cried a lot , and Jesie Smith , appearing in the kitchen more than she had done in recent months , not only cried but wailed , nearly always when Joe was within earshot , and the substance of her wailing was , ‘ Left without a breadwinner , ’ which nearly always elicited , ‘ Oh ! |
| 4 | It was n't that she had ever made a conscious decision to play the helpless female ; she just always looked as though she was in constant need of care and attention , and over the years she had found that it was far easier to allow people to think what they liked , because whenever she tried to be assertive , or explain that she was really quite competent , no one ever believed her . |
| 5 | ( We almost always met in the late mornings at his favourite café , always starting the day with a reviving bowl of café au lait , followed by another — and not infrequently another ! ) |
| 6 | The all-or-nothing spoils of an election victory and the method of election encouraged ( if it not always produced ) a contest between two major parties . |
| 7 | But why , I wonder , is it almost always assumed that when a marriage ( or relationship to use modern jargon ) ceases to function , the man is to blame and that where there are children , he is less fitted to oversee their upbringing ? |