Example sentences of "[that] [pron] always [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yvonne could n't find the fish brooch that she always wore for funerals . |
| 2 | Harriet pushed back the cuff of her ski jacket and glanced at her watch — the clear faced leather-strapped Patek Philippe man 's watch that she always wore in preference to the elegant Cartier her father had given her , unless of course circumstances forced her into an evening gown . |
| 3 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 4 | We knew she would n't go near the road because she was so frightened of people and movement that she always stuck to the security and space of the golf course . |
| 5 | I know you loved Ryan and that you always stood by him . |
| 6 | The illuminated sail was reversible , so that it always sailed in the right direction to ensure authenticity . |
| 7 | You had this lump of rock that you dangled from a thread and people discovered that it always pointed in the same direction , so if you were on board , a ship for the first time people were able to travel in a ship without having to hug a coast all the way across or navigate to where they could see . |
| 8 | ‘ His most annoying habit was that he always had to be right . |
| 9 | When she stopped speaking his feeling of animosity towards her seeped from him , and the pity that he always felt for her again rose to the surface and for a moment he himself knew the extent of her frustration and the reason behind her furious tantrums when she had known his uncle was going to marry again . |
| 10 | She bought a choc-bar ice-cream on the way , and this immediately gave him the illusion of proxy licence that he always felt upon seeing the thin and flawless elude the rules . |
| 11 | The effect was that he always seemed to be smiling . |
| 12 | Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 15 | It seemed that he was extra attentive to me , and I heard via the grapevine that he always referred to me as ‘ the little Waaf with the starry eyes ’ . |
| 16 | He was gazing into his make-up mirror , playing the same game that he always did on the monitor screens in television studios — in other words , deciding which was his best profile . |