We don't have it confirmed, but he was always on the short list.
He was always on the phone, helping people troubleshoot their hamfisted soldering.
He was always on a quick pace and never a procrastinator.
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He was always on the side of speaking the truth and asking the tough questions that most were thinking but were too afraid to ask.
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He was always on the lookout for the funny names they gave to hairdressers and fishmongers and so on: A Cut Above, The Plaice to Go, that sort of thing.
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Witness E said that to him Mr Wootton was always "big headed... he was always letting on he was part of something he wasn't... he would say he had been given orders and he had certain things to do".
"When he threw a punch, he was always right on the money, right on the target, " McCarthy said.
It is one of the ironies of Daumier's career that he was always dependent on selling his works to the middle-class connoisseurs whom he parodied.
"I didn't know him for too long, but every time I spoke to him, he was always spot on with me, " Davies told BBC Radio Stoke.
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"He drew his own boundaries that he didn't want violated on the ice and in the net, and he was always the type of guy who was on the edge of taking a penalty because someone violated his territory, his crease area, " said Mike Gilligan, who coached Thomas at the University of Vermont.
He was always right, staunchly on the side of order, stability, hierarchy and God's law.
"He was always a calming influence on the team and if stress took his life away, I find it difficult to believe, " said Donald.
He maintained this ritual throughout his tenure, so that he always knew exactly what was going on.
"He will be missed by countless fans not only because he was a popular entertainer and musician but also because he was a highly distinguished astronomer who always prided himself on being 'an amateur' whilst winning the recognition of fellow scientists from across the world, " acting BBC director general Tim Davie said in a tribute.
"Whether we won or lost, he was always one of the brightest stars on the team, " he said.
"The truth of the matter is that for so many of us, we just needed someone to hang on to, and Teddy was always there to hang on to, " he said.
He was approachable and - on the right day - friendly and you always knew his first thought was about the good of the newspaper.
On the other, he failed, because for much of his life Pete was personally troubled, always put on a pedestal from a very early age, separated from the crowd, and often his own teammates.
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He was small to be six years old, but he had the largest knees that Frankie had ever seen, and on one of them there was always a scab or a bandage where he had fallen down and skinned himself.
He points out that he's always believed Kevin was capable of turning it on in the big competitions.
It's not always going to happen but he was a target on my list and we have missed out on that one.
He could hear the piano ring across the ditch, even hear people shout, but he could smell the liquor that was always in the house on a Sunday and even steal a taste of it when no one was looking, so it was more real.
He talked about the way Blackburn was always running around the sideline when he wasn't playing, cheering for his teammates on offense, on special teams coverage, whenever encouragement was necessary.
But he never attacked the Murdoch empire or any other newspaper group by name and although he believed the media was out of control, he always resisted calls from within his own inner circle to take them on.
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