Example sentences of "always [vb pp] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they could have sex on a tiger skin by an open fire ; actresses always owned things like tiger skins . |
| 2 | ‘ You are so sensible , you have always seen things in a clearer light . ’ |
| 3 | And they added to this evidence from contemporary institutions which were ‘ how we have always done things ’ . |
| 4 | Certain institutions carried the same message : lineage welfare payments , for instance , and the solemnities of threatening vengeance and exacting a settlement , were adat ( customary ) , the way we have always done things , living reminders of a time when ‘ we did everything in this way ’ . |
| 5 | For the most part , their radicalism did not lead to crisis , and they appeared as complements rather than alternatives to state procedure : for the most part men combined ‘ how we have always done things ’ with ‘ how we are constrained to do things ’ . |
| 6 | When Zuwaya held a wedding or a funeral , when men met in a shaikh 's house to discuss reprisals or bloodwealth , they could say to themselves , ‘ This is how we have always done things . ’ |
| 7 | The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville . |
| 8 | These people have always Done Things in previous lives , perhaps to make up for their rather undistinguished efforts while being alive and in their own bodies . |
| 9 | Fat fish in laburnum ( above ) ‘ I have always made things , ’ says Ned , ‘ and while on a boating holiday on the Thames about 15 years ago I found a branch of very dark wood lying on the ground . |
| 10 | Marina always wrapped things so you did n't want to spoil them by opening . |
| 11 | cos you always bought things totally the wrong colour for my sex |
| 12 | She said that throughout their married life they had always talked things through and come to decisions between them about what to do . |
| 13 | They 've always reconstructed things retrospectively . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ People always comment on the large number of pictures , but we 've always displayed things on the walls and have never particularly liked putting up flowery wallpaper — or wallpaper at all , ’ Catherine explains . |
| 15 | But now ’ she thought that it was not that , but something worse ; Rachel , who had always known things , did not know them properly any more . |
| 16 | This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go . |
| 17 | Mother always liked things to look good . |
| 18 | She called it a good house , because the maid always kept things for her . |