Example sentences of "[that] i [vb past] always [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As John struggles to find another plectrum , I mention that I 'd always thought of him as a fingerstyle player … |
| 2 | Remember that I had always intended to leave spare key with the Twills next door but never got round to it . |
| 3 | He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off ! |
| 4 | Not handsome , but nice-looking in a way I had usually rather deprecated , if not despised : not the lean and craggy looks that I had always admired , but a blunt-featured face with a wide mouth , dark eyes tilted slightly down at the outer corners , and an untidy thatch of brown hair of which a couple of locks fell over a broad forehead , and were from time to time irritably brushed back . |
| 5 | The thought uppermost in my mind was that I had always wondered how young horses felt when I knocked wolf teeth out of them . |
| 6 | In one week I had been transformed into the two personae that I had always sworn to avoid : the preacher and the missionary . |
| 7 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |