Example sentences of "of always [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I now feel I defend much better and instead of always looking to beat the full-back I am happy to get half a yard on him and cross the ball as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 2 | She 'd accused him of always looking at other women : looking , looking , as though for the next conquest . |
| 3 | ACCORDING to her friends , Elaine Smith is one of those people with the annoying habit of always looking good no matter what she wears . |
| 4 | At least , she could have sent the driver , instead of always bringing her daughter home herself . |
| 5 | Tabs of Fuggles Fissenden was known for his strange custom of always leaving the Robin Hood public house backwards , this was because on a number of occasions having imbibed too freely , he fell forward on leaving , breaking his clay pipe , so for ever afterwards he removed himself backwards concerned not with his own safety but with that of his clay pipe . |
| 6 | If we analyse the street-comer activity of doing nothing in groups in the light of always hoping that something will happen , then the creation and the putting into effect of ‘ ideas ’ by the group can be seen as one of the most significant group experiences . |
| 7 | The Admiralty stood its ground on the principle of always maintaining a balanced fleet , based on a limited number of capital ships , which , in 1957 , were generally agreed to be the aircraft-carriers . |
| 8 | Barton says : ‘ I had a reputation at the club of always trying to play a bit of football . |
| 9 | The Jessamy who knew her own worth ; who knew she was going to lead her own life , instead of always trying to do what others wanted and expected of her . |
| 10 | The number of tourists at the town 's new tourist information centre has doubled to 26,000 this year , and the policy of always trying to answer a visitor 's question has undoubtedly played a part in that success . |
| 11 | Freud 's work should make sociologists wary of always accepting people 's own accounts at face value , in the way simple phenomenological approaches do , for then there is no role for theory , and more importantly , no way out of epistemological and ethical relativism . |
| 12 | There was an ache in my middle as if a rock was lodged in the place where all my habits had been — my going-to-bed routine of always brushing my teeth last thing of all so that my mouth felt glowing fresh before I curled up under my duvet and drifted off into sleep . |
| 13 | Jackson conveyed the impression of wishing to establish a permanent UN presence in Korea on the basis of always seeking to convince the Russians of the value of cooperation . |
| 14 | This is the practice of always supplying a 13 amp fuse with a plug . |
| 15 | The other consequence was that , if Stewart kings did not live and reign until a ripe old age , they had the immeasurable advantage of always having been kings ; most were barely aware , some not at all , of any time in their lives when they had not worn the crown . |
| 16 | Make a point of always having more than one project on the go . |
| 17 | Thus monotony and fragmentation are intimately connected , and through the need to accomplish a long series of jobs each day , a feeling of always having too much to do may be added . |
| 18 | Northside , y'see , are professionals and follow the policy of always having the crap support band — in this case it 's been themselves . |
| 19 | Using something tangible like photographs keeps the memory load down to a minimum and eases the stress of always having to think of something to say . |
| 20 | A solution is suggested which combines the requirements of always having someone , with next to no power vacuum , at the helm , together with what today may be taken as being the common preference in the political parties for the Leader ( and hence Prime Minister ) to be elected . |
| 21 | Northside , y'see , are professionals and follow the policy of always having the crap support band — in this case it 's been themselves . |
| 22 | I 've done that on trains , I 've done that on a tour bus quite recently , and of course the response you get can be very , very aggressive and that 's sometimes quite hard to handle but I take the precaution of always checking before I go somewhere that I 'm going to , I 'm going to be backed up , for example , erm before I go I purchase my holiday , I actually checked with the tour company that they did n't allow smoking on the buses |
| 23 | If you get into the habit of always checking the prices of furniture you like in shops , sales or auction rooms , you will soon have a pretty clear idea of most values whether antique , second hand , reproduction or modern . |
| 24 | This example illustrates the necessity of always putting the substantive motion to the vote . |
| 25 | See , the whole trick with Hawaiian music is the mixing of the chords : everybody might be in C , but everybody is tuned differently , so instead of always playing the same damn intervals at the same point on the instrument , you have this wonderful overlap that spreads the feeling of the key out into kind of a pre-'60s sort of an effect . |
| 26 | He wished he could be sure of always working with police officers who brought the same degree of tireless persistence and intelligent analysis to solving a puzzle . |
| 27 | Hankering after the ‘ good old days ’ is a way of always viewing history with rose-tinted glasses . |
| 28 | The latter are not exclusively practical in the sense of always utilizing apparatus , but instead might include tasks such as reading tabular data or looking for number patterns . |