Example sentences of "[noun] was always [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , their frame of mind was always streaked with anxiety that caused them both to be forever on the watch . |
| 2 | The administration was always discomposed by evidence of Masai unfaithfulness , reacting to it with pained surprise if not outright disbelief . |
| 3 | Alexei was always taken by surprise by the Yek talent for blunt speaking , ‘ That being the case , ’ he said , ‘ I am surprised you have given your consent to your daughter 's betrothal to me . ’ |
| 4 | Kevin was always talking about syntax because he was reading philosophy and this is the kind of thing philosophers talk about . |
| 5 | Kyphi was always burnt after sunset for its effects were soporific and intoxicating . |
| 6 | Music was always played at concert pitch in our house . |
| 7 | This plea was always followed by laughter . |
| 8 | The one long straggly high street was always smothered in dust in the summer and with mud in the winter when the great stone carts lurched down from the quarries to the ‘ bankers ’ — the place where the stone was stacked up along the shore . |