Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] always " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … I became fretful , & timorous , & a tell-tale — & the School-boys drove me from play , & were always tormenting me — & hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports . ’ |
| 2 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
| 3 | The big stocky figure of Benny Hogan in her strong shoes and tightly buttoned sensible coat , the waif-like Eve in the clothes that were always too long and streelish on her . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was one of those impetuous decisions that were always earning me reproaches , but it was also a logical step because of my interests . |
| 5 | She looked at Mrs Gotobed 's claw-like , ringed fingers holding her delicate cup , and thought of Auntie Lou 's little red hands that were always in water , washing dishes or scrubbing floors or peeling potatoes . |
| 6 | Keening by the side of the corpse , the professional nacarena still howled her tale of the deceased , spinning it out from scraps of information the family had told her , and then delivering it bound and knotted into a customary warp of praise and lamentation with the reassuring catch-phrases that were always used , to level the pleasant and the unpleasant , the cherished and the despised into a democracy of death , making each death absolutely regrettable , knitting up into the web of the dirge the separate individuals of the community . |
| 7 | For 35 years , he says , he has had his feet abused by regulation army footwear that was always redesigned a little too late . |
| 8 | He was a tall man with dark hair that was always hidden under a hat . |
| 9 | He remembered vividly that yellowish ceramic bowl with the trademark ‘ Challenger ’ , the big varnished wooden seat that was always pleasantly warm to the bum , and a long chain dangling from the high cistern with a sponge-rubber ball , slightly perished , on the end of it . |
| 10 | And whatever else the decor was or the show was that night , whatever city we were all supposed to be in , one thing that was always the same and that Madame never got rid of was the ceiling . |
| 11 | Heavily built with a full round face that was always smiling , she greeted them with such warmth that even timid newcomers relaxed . |
| 12 | Now that her mother has died , she sadly misses the interest and advice that was always forthcoming . |
| 13 | The conversation that was always meant to lead somewhere and then Iain 's surprise when he watched Andrew walk to the toilet . |
| 14 | In my first flat I had a very large cupboard that was always filled with things I could never find a use for , or I had forgotten about . |
| 15 | Out of every litter the puppy that was always kept was the biggest , reddest female . |
| 16 | Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ? |
| 17 | And the tumble dryer , was it still turning or was it the sound of the Meloch that was always with us ? |
| 18 | As she spoke , she reached out and poured herself a glass of water from a jug that was always on her desk . |
| 19 | Comedy produced ‘ hearty laughter ’ , what James Agee was later to describe as ‘ laughter as violent and steady and deafening as standing under a waterfall ’ , and it was the sound of this laughter drifting through open doors that was always the best advertisement for the movies . |
| 20 | Myeloski , for all the seriousness of the situation , had a mischievous streak that was always present . |
| 21 | If anything , these developments strengthened the links with England : the sugar planters , just like the tobacco farmers , needed a market to which they could send their staple export product , and England was turning into a market that was always ready to absorb new products for domestic consumption or for re-export through its expanding commercial system . |
| 22 | Cecilia sat in her comfortable drawing room on the sofa-bed that was always a sofa and never a bed — ‘ But you 've got five bedrooms , Ma , ’ said Tina who had her eye on it — and turned on the television at twenty seconds to six . |
| 23 | Crowds of people and mountains of goods , departing and arriving scores upon scores of times in every four-and-twenty hours , produced a fermentation in the place that was always in action . |
| 24 | She turned and surveyed the room that was always hers when she visited Thomas , its architectural simplicity , the reassuring certainty of the heavy polished wood , the playful cubes and rectangles of the little Feininger villages which she had spent so much time dreaming over in the past . |
| 25 | She thought it might be the one that was always being made to speak up for the others , but she could n't be sure ; it 's difficult to tell one beetle from another . |
| 26 | I 'd get a brand new keyboard and Dad would have to make do with an old car — one that was always going wrong and making him embarrassed in front of his friends . |
| 27 | I do n't know what the guards thought when they looked through the closed-circuit television that was always trained on us here and saw three men , heads motionless , looking down fixedly at some spot on the ground , making curious , swinging arm movements . |
| 28 | The Gruff 's had a marmalade tom cat that was always getting into trouble . |
| 29 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 30 | Is he not conceding and making clear something that was always true : the 2.5 per cent . |