Example sentences of "[noun sg] always [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John , Lord Carteret [ later Earl of Granville ] , who succeeded him , was under no illusions about France , which he identified as ‘ the enemy always aiming at our destruction ’ ; periods of peace with her he considered ‘ only an intermission of hostility ’ . |
| 2 | Does no one nowadays keep up the old precaution of when in a strange pub always starting with a half ? — KEN REED , Sutton , Surrey . |
| 3 | It was good boys ' stuff — the hero always scoring the winning goal , hit or try . |
| 4 | The boy always having adventures and escapades while the girl looks on admiringly , tells him to be careful or stays to play with dolls , is by no means automatically true of the day-to-day play activities of young children . |
| 5 | First , the term ‘ national security is no stranger to us ’ and was used often in statutes without being defined or restricted as to its meaning , with Parliament always accepting that ‘ decisions about questions of national security must be for Ministers ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Michael Crawford takes his induction into the ways of the world with his usual incredulous gape , ’ wrote Eric Shorter in the Daily Telegraph , adding cautiously , ‘ It is a pity to see a young and promising actor always playing the same role , though he is undoubtedly quite good at it . ’ |
| 7 | What you want to go interfering for she burst out , leave me and my family alone , little busy body always sticking your nose into other people 's affairs , Daryl 's temper flared up , I do n't she said , you gua rd your tongue Sally , I never meant to interfere and I ca n't think what all the fuss is about , either you have a sister or you have n't , I do n't care . |
| 8 | I 'm through with you and Gran always telling me what you want , what you expect me to be … . ’ |
| 9 | Each issue gives balanced treatment to the four skills , with the emphasis always moving from receptive to productive skills . |
| 10 | A shifty-eyed little devil , and his wife always expecting . |
| 11 | By a painter who befriends him , and who sleeps for a while with his mother , Jaromil , already self-perceived as exceptional , original , is introduced to modern art , which ‘ had not yet become the shopworn property of the bourgeois masses and retained the fascinating aura of a sect , a magical exclusivity fascinating to childhood — an age always daydreaming about the romanticism of secret societies , fraternities and tribes ’ . |
| 12 | Nolan said angrily , ‘ Why is this bag of slime always hanging about ? ’ |
| 13 | Because still in 1988 , under the pressure of social instability and political crises , homosexuality could be regarded as a kind of privation or error , an ‘ inverted positivity ’ , an inimical , pernicious , inauthenticity always threatening to return from within the true and the authentic . |
| 14 | I think oftahis erasure as a kind of trembling hypochondria always curing itself with unnecessary surgery . |
| 15 | You can combine the pirouette with the hovering circuit by turning around and taking the model around too , as before , but with the model always pointing into wind ( Fig. 7.4 ) . |
| 16 | Rutherford was muttering something about a by-pass always changing a country community , as if he felt the need to apologise for the place . |
| 17 | It stood a clear 10ft above the other trees , like a flag on top of a fortress , its mushroom structure always pressing for the extra light due to its extra height . |
| 18 | And I have a very strong extended family as you might expect of a half Italian , mother always cooking pasta and what have you at home . |
| 19 | The resources of the AIB and its equivalent organisations throughout the world are necessarily limited for reasons of economy , and the person in charge has to deploy his forces in the most effective manner he can devise while at the same time always keeping enough reserves in hand in case of a major catastrophe . |