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Example sentences for "always had"

  • Respect for George undoubtedly increased within her, however, and she told him she'd always had a feeling he might "turn out to be a mechanical genius, or something.

  • He was, he always had been, most aware of her after seeing Jane Brodrick.

  • He was passive to her vision and humble, on his knees, as he always had been, before a kindred immortality.

  • That was the effect he always had on her.

  • Her chance was, and it always had been, the chance of serving him.

  • It went hard with the uncle to listen quietly, for he always had so much to say himself.

  • He always had a piece of chalk in his pocket, and he now took it out and reckoned up the money.

  • But it was just as if he always had a rope around his neck--people who've once tried anything of that sort, never die a natural death.

  • I told the girl a good many of my river adventures, and made myself out a good deal of a hero; Tom tried to make himself appear to be a hero, too, and succeeded to some extent, but then he always had a way of embroidering.

  • We always had eight; eight belonged there.

  • He always had work, he never saved a penny, he was a most persuasive borrower, he was in debt to every pilot on the river, and to the majority of the captains.

  • On September 27th we started once more quite early, after a hearty breakfast--notwithstanding the pain which I always had whenever I ate, especially a stabbing pain in my heart which was almost unbearable at times.

  • Their typical songs were chiefly performed in a chorus by men only, although once or twice I heard solos--which, nevertheless, always had a refrain for the chorus.

  • He apologised for the necessity of some delay, arguing that he could not endure to see his young wife without the comfort of a home of her own, and that he was now, as he always had been, afraid of incurring debt.

  • Indeed, Mrs Roper, I've always had a great regard for her, and for you too.

  • He always had a sort of dread of losing the dumb confidence they had in each other; remembering how for long years he had lost his own father's, so that there had been nothing between them but love at a great distance.

  • Winifred's voice said in his ear: "Jolyon looks very ill; but he always had style.

  • I always had a certain number present, and very delightful were these services at that early hour.

  • It was not long before the Major was hurrying up the steps to the passage above, and it was not long before I followed, because I always had a horror of being bombed in a dugout.

  • One great dread I always had, and that was the dread of being killed by our own artillery.

  • We always had black-eyed peas and hog jowl for New Year's dinner, for it brought good luck.

  • He seen to it that we always had plenty to eat.

  • Our old Master liked cats better than any man I ever saw, and he always had five or six that followed him about de place like dogs.

  • The Nineteenth of June was Emancipation Day, and we always had a big picnic and speeches.

  • I always had a good time, didn't have to work much, and allus had something to eat and wear and that was better than it is with me now.

  • I've always had to look out for myself, and others, too.

  • When he did not he always had a plausible excuse.

  • Laviny Marthy, my first wife, always had a piece of pie warmed for me, and I've missed it since.

  • I don't know whether he made any money in slavery or not but he was a carpenter during slave times and they say he always had plenty of money.

  • He always had a fine hoss and Yankees come and took it.

  • You know I've always had a great regard for your wife, and have thought that no one could suit you better.

  • I always had an answer ready and made my little curtsey so easily, that more than once the ladies noticed me particularly, and exchanged with each other in French, flattering words about my looks, not a syllable of which escaped me.

  • With these intentions I always had my eye upon Göttingen.

  • The beautiful stream above and below bridge attracted my eye; and, when the gilt weathercock on the bridge-cross glittered in the sunshine, I always had a pleasant feeling.

  • He was some two and twenty years old, and would gladly have made me a proselyte to his contempt for mankind; but this would not take with me, as I always had a great desire to be good myself, and to find good in others.

  • He always had a story ready to illustrate a subject of conversation, and the dry manner in which he enlivened his speeches by pungent witticism, without a smile on his own stolid countenance, was irresistible.

  • He rarely spoke, but when he took the floor he always had something to say worth hearing, and he was always listened to.

  • Yes, you've always had flowers, but did you pick the sweet peas or did Barney?

  • He always had a keen eye for the main chance, and never neglected an opportunity for self-advertisement.

  • Punch always had a number of butts on hand--men whom he attacked for their delinquencies, real or imaginary, or whom on account of idiosyncrasies he thought to be fair game, just for the fun of it.

  • Nor was it simple humour that was Punch's profession at the beginning; he always had a more serious and, so to say, a worthier object in view.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always best; always called; always does; always feel; always felt; always found; always glad; always going; always had; always like; always provided; always ready; always remember; always something; always thinking; always took; always used; always wanted; bottomed boat; everyday life; heated dish; illustrious friend; presented itself; said gruffly; will dare; would thou