Example sentences of "[pron] [be] always [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right which English monarch , I 'm always getting the Monarch ones , had a had a red hot poker shoved up his royal |
| 2 | You 're doing what I was always doing the red , the yellow , but try it again . |
| 3 | I suppose if you are always breaking the law it creates a lot of pressure . ’ |
| 4 | She 's always reading the fashion mags and spends loads of money on clothes . |
| 5 | I think Bryony likes erm Smarties because she 's always sucking the juice out of beans . |
| 6 | I mean some people were quite willing to answer it and they were quite willing to say what stereotypes they usually employ and others j er just clam up and said , oh I never judge people , and I thought yeah liar doing all the time ? biggest gossips in the office and she 's never got a good word to say about anyone , she 's always digging the dirt but when I presented her with it , I never try to judge people . |
| 7 | The bearded head gardener who is always tending the apple tree ; the wise old sea-captain who never rushes to judgment ; the character you 're not quite introduced to , but who is giving you a creepy feeling by Chapter Four … pack them off into storage , all of them . |
| 8 | ‘ Thereafter we were always chasing the match and late on we gave a try away after attempting to break out of defence . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ They are always turning the heating up and down . |
| 10 | They 're always knocking the government in this country , it 's not much the government are , are they ? |
| 11 | Oh they 're always changing the position . |
| 12 | Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants . |
| 13 | He s always encouraging the team . |
| 14 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 15 | ‘ I know he 'll be very angry with his mother — he 's always hated the thought of anyone being rough with his children . |
| 16 | And when I do he 's always watching the cricket . ’ |
| 17 | He was always confusing the class with his exclamations . |
| 18 | ‘ He was always acting the goat , that 's why I got to know him . |