Example sentences of "[was/were] always give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
| 2 | Boys in those days they were always given the best education . |
| 3 | This help was always given free of charge . |
| 4 | Visitors were expected to pay in advance but credit was always given to favourites like Modigliani and Leon Trotsky the Russian revolutionary . |
| 5 | Hospice medication was always given in doses adequate to give relief of pain and other symptoms , even at the risk of shortening life , and this could improve , of only temporarily , the quality of life of the patient as it drew to its close . |
| 6 | When asked what further services clients and their carers would wish , more home help was always given as their first priority . |
| 7 | In the Mughal court great importance was always given to small details of protocol and privilege : the colour of a turban , the number of jewels in a noble 's dagger , the place he was assigned in the Red Fort : all these things had significance as subtle indicators to an omrah 's place in the ranking of the empire . |
| 8 | ‘ You liked her because she was always giving you things , ’ Ruth accused her sister . |
| 9 | I was always giving secret funerals to dead birds . |
| 10 | ‘ Peter was always giving me encouragement , ’ Russell recalls . |
| 11 | She was always giving orders to Kamala , who had to obey . |