Example sentences of "[is] always [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He is always complaining about having to flog electric storage heaters anyway . |
| 32 | ANN McGREGOR , kiosk assistant , Darnley : ‘ My mum is always complaining about the range of tights on sale at Sainsbury 's . |
| 33 | By acting as a substitute , a supplement , to its ostensible signified , language is always suggesting the signified is somehow other than it appears in its linguistic signifying form . |
| 34 | The problem with being an astrologer is that everyone is always pestering you to find out what 's to happen in the next few days . |
| 35 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 36 | For example Jaggers , a very dominating , lawyer is always speaking in that fashion by using ‘ Now ’ or ‘ Well ’ or ‘ Very Well ’ . |
| 37 | There are over 1,000 aviation memorials to be found in the UK and that figure is always expanding . |
| 38 | Unfortunately , she was never able really to influence developments in the way that Britain should , by being right in the middle of events , and being seen as a joint , willing partner in Europe — not a country that is always ducking and diving and looking for ways of putting party and even narrow national interests before those of the wider European concept . |
| 39 | The Tour is always enlarging its empire , and it likes to mix its traditional resting places with new stage towns . |
| 40 | Everything focuses on the fact that he is always struggling with his desire for love and power as well as for an end to all his problems . |
| 41 | The Weather Department is always experimenting with new ideas . |
| 42 | The individual is always trying to reconcile his inner and outer world and lessen the anxiety of the internal situation . |
| 43 | This created a conundrum for the label , resolved with the following decision : ‘ You can suffer from Number One-itis , ’ reckons Andy , ‘ which is always trying to get to Number One or go one better than you managed last time . |
| 44 | After all , elementary particle physics is always trying to split things up into smaller and smaller constituents with a view to treating them independently of each other . |
| 45 | ‘ The old drunk thinks he knows about horses , and is always trying to get to Sir John 's destrier . |
| 46 | The surface of a liquid is thus in a state of tension — it is always trying to contract . |
| 47 | Big Merv is always trying something new . |
| 48 | This one-way traffic gives them their uniqueness but also a certain poignant quality : the I is always striving towards the Thou or You , but the second person never replies . |
| 49 | My wife is always buying new products , and I find myself happily using them without question . |
| 50 | is always buying things . |
| 51 | They live in a political cowards ' Disney world where Tom is always chasing Gerry in an ever-decreasing circle of options while , outside in the real world , Bugs Bunny is having his tail shot off as he chokes on the latest political carrot . |
| 52 | She is back in the house that she is always remembering and talking endlessly about , she has her precious Miss Cress . |
| 53 | Here de Candolle 's concept of species being at war with one another , discussed at length by Lyell , must have allowed Darwin to see that the population of any species is always tending to expand into the surrounding territory , if necessary at the expense of the existing inhabitants . |
| 54 | The bearded head gardener who is always tending the apple tree ; the wise old sea-captain who never rushes to judgment ; the character you 're not quite introduced to , but who is giving you a creepy feeling by Chapter Four … pack them off into storage , all of them . |
| 55 | Love reciprocated is always rejuvenating , " Eliot told him . |
| 56 | Chris is always bringing somebody home . ’ |
| 57 | And the shifts are structured to ensure one shift is always receiving on-going skills training . |
| 58 | In this way the child 's performance is continually sustained by the adult who , almost paradoxically , is always seeking to withdraw so that the child is able to participate in interactions as an independent and autonomous individual . |
| 59 | Morrissey is always taking off his shirt but he is also proudly and publicly chaste . |
| 60 | Bob is always creating a song . |