Example sentences of "[verb] always at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made his eighteenth-century reader aware of the travel difficulties , and how they were surmounted — on steep hills by precipices the Highlander and his horse go carefully , the rider sometimes walking , always with a guide : ‘ The horseman has always at his side a native of the place , who , by pursuing game , or tending cattle , or often being employed in messages or conduct , has learned where the ridge of the hill has breadth sufficient to allow a horse and his rider a passage , and where the moss or bog is hard enough to bear them . ’ |
| 2 | Zack drove always at the proper speed , his companions upright and silent in their seats . |
| 3 | In the evenings , for relaxation and forgetfulness , Paul turned to his piano , and improved his playing , staring always at the green silk panels and brass candelabra on the upright front . |
| 4 | ‘ Have faith in the future , my princes , ’ she had concluded , ‘ and be of good cheer — you are your father 's sons , and he who laughed always at adversity would have been proud of you . |
| 5 | We are left always at liberty to suppose that Aragorn and Éomer could have met once more as prisoners , say , that the Grey Company could have quailed and turned back . |
| 6 | With the fedayeen , love always at once complicates and simplifies the narrative . |
| 7 | It would be tedious to quote more than a few examples of the evidence from parliamentary commissions , the STC , union reports and surveys etc. , but the following quotations are typical : " About the only work which the women can do is to stand or sit at their formes and set up type ; and to distribute the types back again into the cases , but of course this is only a portion of a compositor 's work " ( an employer ) ; " " As far as mere type-lifting is concerned , she may do , but there is other rough work in connection with compositors " work which I do not think a woman is qualified for " ( a union leader ) ; " Women … get the best , i. e. the simplest jobs … they are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work " ( an employer ) . |
| 8 | They are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work and thus become very skilful at it " ( employer quoted by Macdonald ) . |