Example sentences of "always [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as happened more frequently , she did not , she let her view be known , even though it almost always led to a quarrel . |
| 2 | However hard he tried , he somehow always failed to be the son she wanted ; the son she truly deserved . |
| 3 | She 's sitting down with her back to me , just like she always used to , and I 'm brushing slow and gentle , making her hair nice and neat . |
| 4 | He does n't move , then suddenly his head gives a small jerk forward and his eyes buck wide open , the way they always used to when he 'd make some incoherent claim to lineage to the gods . |
| 5 | ( She always used to , of course , when I was n't here , but she seems to forget that . |
| 6 | Well there was a bit there where they always used to camp . |
| 7 | ‘ Girl , never doubt but he 'll come back to you whole and hungry , as he always used to from the butts or the wrestling when you were fretting over his lateness . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We always tried to be one step ahead , but it 's almost its own pigeon hole now . |
| 9 | He always tried to be reasonable and logical in his arguments , but he knew reason and logic would be wasted on Walter Carew . |
| 10 | ‘ But we always tried to be more sympathetic than most , and went out of our way to work with the people who wanted to use our stuff . |
| 11 | Simon is a devoted dad who always tried to be around as much as possible . |
| 12 | Well direct sales you you know I always tried to sort of stay away from companies that you know had a reputation for that . |
| 13 | We always promised to be at each other 's wedding , and if I do n't turn up she 'll be upset . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | We always referred to them as those ladies of the stage . |
| 16 | ‘ In later years , ’ Philip wrote , ‘ he always referred to me as his father . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He always referred to Saeed as his son , never ours . |
| 19 | He always rose to such occasions with confident decisiveness and calm authority . |
| 20 | I always objected to the idea that everything is predetermined and that we have no choice . |
| 21 | Colonel Peter Young was a popular officer , well liked by everyone , always seemed to be of the same temperament , in action , or sitting at the bar in a country inn . |
| 22 | It 's hard to tell , cos I always seemed to be awake , but then I remember waking up with a jump when this voice comes over the loud speaker . |
| 23 | The likeliest alternative always seemed to be worse . |
| 24 | He turned , bewildered , and saw a big man with spiky grey hair , a tanned skin and eyes that later always seemed to be the colour of phlegm . |
| 25 | People who did n't like him said he was very sarcastic , but he always seemed to me to be a most sensitive and competent man . |
| 26 | Miss Ellis ' eyebrows launched into the twitchy dance they always seemed to at the mention of the words , ‘ my mother . ’ |
| 27 | They always seemed to be beyond the next corner or in the next room . |
| 28 | . We always seemed to be lucky in that way . ’ |
| 29 | The unforgiving finger of fate always seemed to single out Frank Haffey but eventually the fall-guy had his day . |
| 30 | When he was well , he always seemed to be in demand and was proud to have worked on the Salisbury Cathedral restoration in the 1860 s , carried out under the direction of the great Victorian architect , Sir Gilbert Scott . |