Example sentences of "always said [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Now I 'd always said to myself , ‘ I 'll never join the Masonic Lodge , ’ and therefore I would n't join the Bobby Burns Club . |
2 | ‘ Diana has always said to her friends throughout her royal career , ‘ I will never become Queen ’ . ’ |
3 | I 've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why should n't I ? ’ |
4 | Poor Susie Smallwood , she had always said to herself , poor Susie , with her discontented little face and her sports car and her Rolex watch ; but now enviable Susie who could , and would , albeit with a show of petulance , leave Loxford and begin again . |
5 | ‘ The stopping and cutting of tape was always said to be very expensive , not only in the cost of the tape but also in the man hours needed to do it . |
6 | " My dear , it is God 's will , " Amabel kept on saying because that was the thing her own mother and her dear old nanny — both gone now — had always said to her . |
7 | No , I know , I do n't mean owt , owt wrong but I just ca n't remember these two names , I do n't know why , there 's something I 've never been able to , cos I 've always said to you ai n't I ? |
8 | Well I always have , and my mum 's always said to me why ever do n't you sit down |
9 | The frequent remark that ‘ it was all so much simpler under communism ’ is not always said with total irony . |
10 | It was always said with approval . |
11 | He looked serene — I know that is always said about the dead , and after all , how else would they look ? |
12 | What I 've always said about life itself . |
13 | He had already completed his required 30 , but had always said from the start that he was going to be along on my last one , and he did it . |