Example sentences of "that always " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed to realize that always too late — when it had happened . |
| 2 | Along with many of the other development corporations , the skills and experience in creating new communities have been dispersed — a fact that always amazes foreign visitors who look on British new towns as one of the major achievements of post-war planning anywhere in the world . |
| 3 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 4 | Throughout these quatrain poems sex and religion mix , so that always ‘ The nightingales are singing near / The Convent of the Sacred Heart. , Whether there is anything beyond the sexual is uncertain . |
| 5 | Anticipated here is that always unstable disjunction between identification and desire upon which male bonding depends . |
| 6 | The Spirit 's steering is sharp and super-sensitive , requiring no more than finger-tip control , in stark contrast to the Vauxhall that always feels meaty and firm , yet with a touch of on-centre slack . |
| 7 | It was her smile that always did for him . |
| 8 | With me that rings a warning bell , since it 's one of those suspicious New Age buzzwords that always portend a scam or screwball notion such as crystal therapy or out-of-body travel . |
| 9 | Six feet five inches ( 1.9 metres ) tall , left-handed , bespectacled , with a loose , ambling walk that always seemed so relaxed , he wielded a three-pound ( 1.35-kilo ) bat with enormous strength and delighted in sending the ball vast distances . |
| 10 | It 's a question we all got — that always gets asked when — ‘ |
| 11 | Aunt Harriet Craven had been married to a politician , a Cabinet Minister , so that always their Surrey house was full of weekend guests , men strolling in twos and threes about the lawn before luncheon , tall and important , and their lady wives , as Eleanor must learn to call them , in drooping hats . |
| 12 | The house that always used to be warm and welcoming when they got home is now dark and cold . |
| 13 | An exceptionally aggressive horse may reduce the position of another natural herd leader ; a racehorse that always comes last may slide down the social scale ; whereas a horse low in self-esteem and of a more passive and gentle nature , may , if its confidence is given a considerable boost , decide to dominate other horses formerly higher in the pecking order . |
| 14 | There can be problems with something like the ‘ Quoniam ’ of the B minor Mass with the horn part that always sounds problematic on the modern instrument . |
| 15 | I barge through the crowd of 'orrible mums , snotty kids and prams that always litter up the gate , and rush across the road , Mrs Moggs , the crossing lady , trying hard to keep up with me on her fat little legs . |
| 16 | The chemistry department had a strong reputation in carbohydrate chemistry , and the story had it that as new sugars were discovered they were given names that always ended in ‘ -ose ’ — eg sucrose , glucose , fructose etc . |
| 17 | A subject that always causes controversy is whether headteachers should advise or instruct members of staff on their dress and appearance . |
| 18 | Their own house in those days , a step up the social ladder from Gran 's , had its own indoor toilet , a dark narrow room off the half-landing that always niffed a bit , however much Sanilav and Dettol his mother poured into the bowl . |
| 19 | As one friend complained : ‘ One does n't just suffer from one 's own stress — as soon as our man 's job is going badly we 're the ones who get the backlash and that always seems to include no sex . ’ |
| 20 | But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy . |
| 21 | The wave is a fish that always gets away . |
| 22 | This all simply helped to exaggerate the differences that always existed between Charman and the three other members . |
| 23 | Brook ruled this out : ‘ I do not , however , favour this suggestion — we could not adopt it without undertaking a review of the Cabinet Committee organisation and that always takes a substantial time , as so many Ministers and others have to be consulted . |
| 24 | It is easy to show that no algorithm that always prefers one source to another can be adequate . |
| 25 | Standing together in the back yard of the ‘ Windy Ridge ’ , all four of them momentarily experienced that eerie silence that always prevailed on the banks of the River Severn at high water during the hours of darkness . |
| 26 | A cat cornered by , say , a dog will produce an explosive spit that always makes the approaching animal jump back in alarm . |
| 27 | I suppose he thought I was another weirdo like him that always sit on benches talking to themselves . |
| 28 | Paula had brought her friend Louise home with her and they would be sharing the sort of older-girl talk that always made Sally feel like an intruder — and a very gauche , childish intruder at that . |
| 29 | Write out a list of local phone numbers and any instructions that the next occupants of your home will find invaluable — like how to open up that funny cupboard in the second bedroom that always sticks . |
| 30 | We have found that it is good to be factual and helpful on these occasions and that always one or two who live opposite , or round the corner or who know the building have been drawn in . |