Example sentences of "[was/were] always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rows were always over money and housework : " He 'd just go berserk till two or three in the morning , bawling and shouting , and I 'd just try to sit and hold his legs . |
| 2 | The trade papers were always including references to experiments of this sort but it was obvious that these many initiatives came to very little . |
| 3 | We just passed them out to crazy people and artistes and people who were always on the scene in New York . |
| 4 | They were a difficult band to manage because they were always on the brink of breaking up . |
| 5 | While the splendid John Devereux improved his chances of being named in today 's Great Britain touring squad to Australia , with a fine display from his old rugby union position of centre , they were without too many of their creative players to open a hard-tackling defence which absorbed the pressure and were always on the lookout for the counter-attack . |
| 6 | Both Mr and Mrs Tiller were always on the lookout for any child or woman with potential . |
| 7 | Neil ( singing ironically ) : ‘ You were always on my mi-ind/You were always … ’ |
| 8 | My fantasies were never about specific sexual activities , they were always on the level of some emotional transcendence — someone would come along and embrace me and that would be it ; I could n't really envisage what the nitty gritty practical things were . |
| 9 | Though we worked in the same department , I saw little of Daisy , as we were always on different shifts . |
| 10 | The provincial spectacles were always on a much smaller scale since governors and wealthy patrons could never attempt to emulate the extravagant shows in Rome for fear of arousing the suspicious jealousy of the reigning Emperor . |
| 11 | It must be hell to be her , with her crazy parents who were always on the scrounge , though she did n't seem even to be aware of her situation . |
| 12 | They were they never worked on the same paper , they were always on |
| 13 | They were always on the subject of war anyway . |
| 14 | Fisher Row was similar to some of the contemporary rural communities which have been studied in depth in that it had a stable core of local families which remained for generation after generation while another group which included carters , drovers and seasonal workers who found cheap lodgings in the parish were always on the move . |
| 15 | The Seasiders , boosted by the inclusion of leading scorer Tommy Mooney were always on top and showed sharp finishing . |
| 16 | Despite having the smaller pack , they were always on top in the scrums and scored two pushover tries , both touched down by McGrath . |
| 17 | The youth could n't have been an inch over five feet three , skinny with dark curly hair and flashing eyes that never seemed to be still , as if he were always on the lookout for trouble . |
| 18 | Birds were always with them ; robins watched with bright eyes and sang as they passed ; wrens flew suddenly and low from branch to bush ; great tits rang out their bell-notes unseen from the tree-tops ; tree-creepers trickled headlong and caterwise down the creviced trunks of the oaks ; woodpeckers kept up a constant drum-rattle on the hollow branches , the sound coming now from the right , now from the left , now in front , now behind ; wood-pigeons wooed one another in secret leafy recesses , comforting , encouraging , cajoling ; rooks sprang upwards cawing into the blue sky as they passed beneath their nests ; and higher still , up towards the sun , they caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling , buzzards , kites , eagles . |
| 19 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 20 | You were always with Doyle ? |
| 21 | Problems of rot were always with us but there were other problems as well which were just as serious . |
| 22 | But my grandfather on my mother ; s side and my grandmother too both won military awards in the first war for bravery , so the oral traditions of both wars were always with us . |
| 23 | You were always with him . |
| 24 | You were always with him . |
| 25 | Morality was for the laity , whose life was dominated by the battle against mortal sin , and who therefore lived under the threat of hell and were always at risk . |
| 26 | We were always at our desks by nine , taking short breaks only for meals and often working late into the night . |
| 27 | ‘ To hasten the King 's death , deposition , insanity , etc. , and make sure that there were always at least three false claimants to the throne ’ , among other things . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Leeds were always at the back of my mind as the side I would like to join if I came back to England , ’ said the 6ft 2in , 16 stone Iro . |
| 29 | At Oxford United a person occupying such a role would have been one of six or seven boys who were always at the front when conflicts arose with the rival fans . |
| 30 | Most families , especially the young and old , were always at risk from hypothermia in the winter . |