Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] was always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At every step I was told not to do it because I was bound to suffer from the kind of prejudice I was always talking about . |
| 2 | During his session with the unfortunate staff at Caterer and Hotel Keeper he was always wheezing with laughter at something that did not really seem to warrant it . |
| 3 | The stair of my billet creaked , however , and no matter how carefully I tiptoed , in the morning I was always greeted with , ‘ We heard you come in last night ’ , and of course I felt guilty , especially as we could not defend ourselves , having to pretend that our work was of no account . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course it was always going to be difficult , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Either the Führer 's statement , the report went on , meant that he had allowed himself to be badly deceived and was not , therefore , the genius he was always alleged to be ; or he had intentionally lied to the people about rising war production , knowing all the time that saboteurs were at work . |
| 6 | The occasional black eye he had collected early on , when he was still at school , he had attributed to the fights he was always having in the playground , or on the street coming home . |
| 7 | For some reason he was always referred to as " The Threarah " — perhaps because there happened to be only one threar , or rowan , near the warren , from which he took his name . |
| 8 | With the exception of these 11 patients , when ultrasonagraphy suggested gall stone recurrence it was always accompanied by an oral cholecystectography . |