Example sentences of "[be] always [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your bills are always sailing through taxation as drawn , it may be that your draftsman is getting it spot on , but equally it may be because the bills are being constantly understated and therefore are found to be unobjectionable . |
| 2 | You complain how seldom I attend you , and when you are always talking of matrimony or this low-born raw girl it must needs lessen the pleasure of approaching you . |
| 3 | At one crowded meeting a British soldier got up and said , ‘ Why is it that you Burmese are always talking about independence and self-government ? |
| 4 | the American stuff but when you 're arrested you are always arrested on suspicion because in this country you are innocent until a cou a court proves you 're i er guilty , yeah ? |
| 5 | Broad shoulders are always associated with strength and are very impressive . |
| 6 | The Marxists , by contrast , had only been able to build a viable organization , under the name of the British Socialist Party , for a few years before 1914 and were always bedevilled by sectarianism and schism . |
| 7 | They regarded themselves , however fallaciously , as light-skinned ; in their paintings they were invariably shown full face and almost white , whereas their enemies were always depicted in profile and black , unless they were Europeans . |
| 8 | And so Harrison of Caldbeck and Robinson of Buttermere — wrestlers were always known by name and village both — were circling about each other 's conversation trying for a grip . |
| 9 | It would also have ensured that people are dealt with in a consistent way and that the interests of the public were always taken into account when these important decisions are made . |
| 10 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 11 | His body still convulsing , he fumbles to untie his turban and release the long twisted tuft of hair , the dhāmi 's insignia , that 's always covered from sight except when he 's possessed — when he becomes the god . |
| 12 | He was always tempted by abstraction and idealism ( Rossi , 1975 , p. 117 ) . |
| 13 | I was always greeted with warmth and affection . |
| 14 | Kevin was always talking about syntax because he was reading philosophy and this is the kind of thing philosophers talk about . |
| 15 | Yet , their frame of mind was always streaked with anxiety that caused them both to be forever on the watch . |