Example sentences of "[v-ing] always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond , the Edge becomes less well defined and is succeeded by steep slopes , surmounted by inclining eastwards and following the county boundary and the watershed and keeping always to the height of land in surroundings of utter desolation yet of profound influence on the landscape , for three major rivers have their source hereabouts : the streams flowing east are tributaries of the River Swale , those to the west drain an area known as Eden Springs , the source of the River Eden , and a short distance to the south are the beginnings of the River Ure . |
| 2 | The sufferer may have significant mood swings , tending always towards depression resulting from the damaged sense of hope and other damaged senses . |
| 3 | Landowners were , however , allowed to retain the rights of pasture and of cutting wood which they had previously enjoyed , subject to the customary payment of ‘ puture ’ to the foresters , and ‘ saving always to the king his deer and pasture for the same ’ . |
| 4 | We slept fitfully , waking always to the flickering telegraph poles and the same glaring emptiness stretching away to distant horizons beneath a vast sky . |
| 5 | It depends on the act of viewpoint-shifting , which we must now consider more closely , remaining always on the lookout for loopholes through which the egoist might slip . |
| 6 | The top of the ‘ face ’ then runs along the Kuril Islands to Japan , staying always on the ocean side of these chains — down through the Marianas — Saipan , Guam , Palau — to a point just east of the Spice Islands , which played so large a part in the saga of Magellan and his attempted circumnavigation . |
| 7 | ‘ A week later , travelling always like this , like the émigrés in the 1790s , I arrived there . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | From the corner where she squatted on a stool , she watched Midnight quietly serving the six people sitting at the long table ; n the centre of the room and , in spite of her hunger , was impressed by the careful , unobtrusive way he worked — standing always on the left of each person , never knocking against them or even brushing the backs of their tall chairs . |
| 10 | Flaubert was a vehemently reactionary anti-Christian , arguing always against the need to assist or promote the weak and meek . |
| 11 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |