Example sentences of "[noun] always [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ate pasta , the Substitute continuing to ask rapid questions while winding rapid forkfuls , his eyes always fixed on the Captain 's . |
| 2 | If social research always followed in the wake of social trends , there should be a rich vein of studies in which Black families , and Black women within these families , describe their poverty . |
| 3 | The lunchtime crush at the Washington was beginning to thin ; but the serious drinkers always gathered round the bar for their last stand . |
| 4 | Unless you were of ‘ a nervous disposition ’ ( what a lovely genteel phrase that is ) you were unlikely to be distressed by these tales of goodies versus the bad monsters , especially as the goodies always won in the end . |
| 5 | I went through to the dining-room and helped myself to a pint of the neuron-friendly punch Uncle Hamish always made for the event . |
| 6 | It was Buddie 's signature tune , the one his band always played at the start of every session . |
| 7 | George was active locally in more ways than one , his political sympathies always directed to the Left and to helping such bodies as the Spanish Relief Committee . |
| 8 | Their confidence soared and crashed in the space of seven minutes at the start of a game always haunted by the spectre of relegation . |
| 9 | The nineteenth-century expansion of London in general and west London in particular was complex and not by any means always related to the arrival of the railways . |
| 10 | So if you can line these prices up you 'll see that the top is always gon na be people always read from the top down . |
| 11 | It was no coincidence that Franco always referred to the exercise of political power as " el mando " — " command " . |
| 12 | But the inquisitive crowd always collected inside the wire to outnumber the newcomers and to stare . |
| 13 | Strangely my mother always referred to the area between St. Paul 's Road and Gas Lane as ‘ the old Gaol ground ’ , no doubt copying her mother 's description for the area was developed for housing in 1870 . |