Example sentences of "[was/were] always a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the teds there were always a few young art school types who were interested in the idea of teddy boy style . |
| 2 | You were always a late riser , quite unlike me , so we did not start on this little adventure until after lunch . |
| 3 | We were always a very close bunch of people , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Maybe this is because Wodehouse 's country house settings were always a never-never land which defy visual translation , whereas his view of America , however far he sent up his adopted country , had closer links with reality . |
| 5 | There was the charming Denis whose paintings were always a delight . |
| 6 | Those treats were always a scrimmage — ten or twelve boys all endeavouring to be the first to catch Mrs. Robbins ' eye . |
| 7 | The whole ritual took most of them half an hour though there were always a few that gossiped so much they had to be nagged by their Head Girl . |
| 8 | As we negotiated the slippery rungs of that staircase , there were always a few interested bystanders with nothing better to do than shout encouraging remarks from time to time , but we soon learnt to ignore them . |
| 9 | Number nine , where the O'Briens lived , looked different from the other houses , for Susan loved beautiful colours , and her curtains were always a cheerful oasis amidst the Nottingham lace of the conventional neighbours . |
| 10 | mountains and there were always a few |
| 11 | They were always a little bit big and I just liked the metal a little bit better . |
| 12 | There were always a great many students who took English as a subject in First Arts . |
| 13 | ‘ You were always a cigar man , were n't you Barney ? |
| 14 | THOMPSON : ‘ The thing with Bill Shankly was that we were always a family and everyone knew each other from the cleaning lady to the girls in the ticket office . |
| 15 | Perhaps you were always a bit wobbly anyway ! |
| 16 | Yet their work also represents a very important process , unlike any of the preceding ‘ -isms ’ , which were always a continuation : Impressionism started the ball rolling , was continued by Fauvism which was a distortion of it , followed by Cubism , again a distortion but still ‘ retinal ’ , because the importance of the visual experience was always the decisive factor . |
| 17 | In all probability there were always a few freeholders in any county who could be prevailed upon in this way to swing their votes behind a candidate who offered a guarantee of advantage . |
| 18 | We were always a family uprooted . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought you were always a devout capitalist . ’ |
| 20 | He were always a bit of a tyrant . |
| 21 | One of the thousands — Wotai 's is part of T'zin 's tuman , but they have n't served with him for several years , and they were always a bit leery of him . |
| 22 | ‘ His ample figure and full-moon face , with its fringe of curls , were always a pleasant vision , and he had a persuasive manner that was hard to resist … his chronic good humour soothed many savage breasts . ’ |
| 23 | Shah Jehan 's extraordinary sexual appetites were always a matter of some speculation in the Imperial City , both to travellers and to native Delhi-wallahs . |
| 24 | but they were always a bit erm unhappy when they gave up so much time and er there was nobody there to listen to them when when they got there . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 26 | She was n't used to mountains and heights were always a little alarming , especially when you had a very lively imagination . |
| 27 | But there were always a big potful of of whatever you know erm stew or she 'd make a a cake in a in a big meat tin . |
| 28 | — you were always a gentleman while you were at Kirkcaldy and that 's how I 'll always think of you , regardless of where you are in the future . |
| 29 | There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization . |
| 30 | There were always a number of children in the street . |