Example sentences of "[be] always [verb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually he 's not that friendly with Foxy but erm tt says they 're always arguing on the rugby pitch , they 're always , you know , stand at the back and slag each other off and say oh shit or stuff but then erm tt afterwards they sort of end |
| 2 | Because you 're always starting on the root , reversing directions on the root and ending on the root , you 're only using one seventh of the possibilities inherent in each scale . |
| 3 | In the latter case judgements are always made on the student 's overall profile of achievements and no attempt is made to alter marks on modules to produce artificially a higher average . |
| 4 | And it is now recognised that the great mountain chains are always found on the side of the continental plate facing the direction of its drift . |
| 5 | My small table and chair were always placed on the dinner table near her left elbow , and Glumdalclitch stood near me , in case I needed her help . |
| 6 | Five would be disappointed , but we were always kept on the hop . |
| 7 | Though this case is always cited on the issue of whether the performance of a contractual obligation owed to a third party can be good consideration , the principal point at issue was whether the testator made an offer of contract at all . |
| 8 | Because the dower is always settled on the bride and her family either in kind or in cash or both , it has inevitably led to the stigma of ‘ selling and buying ’ , to stories of a girl going to the highest bidder . |
| 9 | By placing the drama in the past , however , the film is always teetering on the edge of the familiar nostalgic colonial narrative . |
| 10 | This is not , in fact , a single theory but an approach which sees racism on the outside of social and political life — sometimes the unwanted blemish is the neo-fascists , sometimes it is immigration laws , other times it is the absence of equal opportunities — yet racism is always located on the surface of other things . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ Our production is always putting on the pressure . |
| 12 | cos it 's always advertised on the telly |
| 13 | And it 's always parked on the footpath . |
| 14 | He hoped fervently that they would go back to Florence and had dropped several hints in the hope of getting this information out of them , but the Captain was always concentrating on the job in hand as if nothing else mattered and the magistrate only smiled and nodded distractedly , his mind apparently elsewhere . |
| 15 | During office hours the main door of Moorlake House was always left on the latch . |