Example sentences of "i always [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I always catch a lady when she falls , ’ he said softly , his strong hands steadying her .
2 I 'd , it 's funny because I always wanted a girl
3 Y'know , I always had a home to go to .
4 There were sometimes dangerous people near Haworth , so I always had a gun in the house .
5 I always had a sort of inclination towards buildings , architecture and that sort of thing .
6 ‘ Yes , I always get a kick out of it .
7 Never fail I always get a day or two before holiday starts .
8 I always get a thrill out of sharing my vast experience , and my almost intuitive understanding of the readers ' real needs .
9 Concomitant symptoms are symptoms not directly related to but arising at the same time as , the main complaint such as a headache with diarrhoea or cold sores with a fever — things which are repeatedly associated , so that the patient might say ‘ Whenever I get this problem I always get a stomach upset ’ or whatever it may be .
10 ‘ But I always like a beach to myself .
11 When I go out to the shops — you know , to get stuff like milk or fags for Marie or summat — I always stop a bit and watch them .
12 The grants , the of the grants of course increased over the years and the main thing about erm awards of course was to assess them and this is something which erm , I always felt a bit self conscious about because , we had this erm very comprehensive form where parents and erm , oh individuals when they were the students themselves had to complete and give very precise details of income
13 However the message soon got home to me so that today , nearly seventy years on , I always make a point of being early .
14 And I always make a point of doing as I please .
15 I always take a bottle of water in the car for the children . ’
16 I always take a bottle of claret and a meat pie to help me through the service and , when it 's finished , I gaze around to catch the eye of some pretty maid .
17 I always take a shower so have little experience of bath taps .
18 There is no right or wrong way and personally I always take a briefcase with me because there you have the tools of my trade in there .
19 I always take a turn in the restaurant to see there are no complaints .
20 ‘ Well , I always take a nap of an afternoon and when you rap the knocker it startles me , which is bad for my nerves . ’
21 I always take a lot of care plumbing the depth , and even though I know this peg well , I will plumb it again .
22 Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in .
23 That episode made me quickly learn how to repair a puncture and from that time on I always carried a repair outfit .
24 I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme .
25 ‘ As a child I always wore a jet necklace and cross , ’ recalls Mabel McMillan .
26 ‘ Before I start a book , I always draw a map of the setting , and I put in people 's houses .
27 I always keep a bottle in my desk drawer , but this character was putting it away on an industrial scale .
28 I always wear a helmet when I go out on a bike , but I think we might have to make helmets a fashion accessory to get more children to wear them . ’
29 There 's one in the just by the er , the changing rooms , the , the erm lockers and I always choose a locker that
30 yeah , yeah I always choose a locker that 's between the
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