Example sentences of "but always [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally they walk upright along a branch , grasping it with their toes but always holding on to a branch above their heads with their hands . |
| 2 | It begins just north of the Mexican border and continues as far as Vancouver , sometimes winding inland , occasionally merging with the multi-laned 101 , but always providing fascinating variety . |
| 3 | However , not much in the way of working-class housing was constructed on the bank tops until the 1850s , when housing development began in earnest and continued until the First World War with the construction of ‘ By-Law ’ housing by builders of a variety of scales but always using land ‘ developed ’ by large-scale investors . |
| 4 | Natural signs and social symbols might seem to form a continuum , marked by the presence of convention at the social end but always involving natural expression too . |
| 5 | John wanted the light misty at first , then becoming brighter , but always radiating from a focal point at the back of the stage ; Primavera arising from the floor in white must make a ‘ most phallic ’ effect . |
| 6 | Intensely shy but always wanting to be good , she went round the ‘ table ’ , kissing each one of us and hoping for a hug in return . |
| 7 | As fast as the stuff disappeared into the centre so , on the far outside of the whirlpool , more and more of the dust clouds of outer space were captured and began their journey inwards — slowly at first , but always getting faster and faster . |
| 8 | At dinner in Littlehampton she had acted perfectly , had been friendly but not familiar , always cheerful , talking enough but not too much — but always acting . |
| 9 | ( These were varied but always touching ) . |
| 10 | They also tend to ‘ use up ’ remedies quickly which may need repeating several times an hour at first but always according to the changes in the symptom picture . |
| 11 | Walking , talking , but always knitting ! |
| 12 | When I got to know the two men well I got a visual image of these judgements — Lenin , solid and stocky , advancing at an even pace , and the slight figure of Bukharin galloping off in front , but always needing to feel Lenin 's presence . |
| 13 | Marx 's own celebration of capitalism is an ironic one , demonstrating its historical necessity , but always presenting it as an instrument of a doomed social formation permeated by the image of proletarian suffering . |
| 14 | The easy course , in fact , in a life of ‘ self-sufficiency ’ is to drift from day to day , working hard but always responding to circumstances ; on a subsistence holding like ours , there is always somewhere to be weeded ; something to be mended or maintained . |
| 15 | ‘ There were three of us in here , ’ said Porter slowly , his gaze flicking from one visitor to the other , but always returning to Anne Hopper . |
| 16 | He suggested that there should be drawn up such an ideal optimum , and only then should the private sector be taken into account to see how the ‘ ideal ’ and the possible would diverge , but always attempting to push towards the ideal . |
| 17 | Is life the countervailing force , now pitiably weak but always improving from its lowly origins , which may lead eventually to a future beyond even the imagination of men like Boltzmann ? |
| 18 | Since setting up UA 's London office in 1961 , George Ornstein had already launched the ‘ James Bond ’ series with Dr No ( 1962 ) , From Russia With Love ( 1963 ) and Goldfinger ( 1964 ) , establishing the world of glamour , action and intrigue in which the neo-thug Bond moved , each time taking on an evil villain bent on destroying and dominating the world , but always finding time to tryst with beautiful girls in exotic locations . |
| 19 | The nearest we get is Helen Thomas 's introduction to the 1932 edition of The South Country about the life he had chosen , oft en suffering ‘ despair and humiliation ’ , but always finding in the country ‘ the comfort he so passionately sought ’ . |
| 20 | Then he caught the unmistakable dead man 's stench of river water , heaving slowly , but always finding , no matter what the obstacle , the shortest way home . |
| 21 | They must naturally be pursued , but always giving counsellees the opportunity to move on to other , more crucial issues . |
| 22 | Whether Darrel McHargue would have won on Commanche Run is irrelevant , for this was vintage Lester Piggott — the jockey completely at one with his horse , pushing it just enough to achieve maximum effort but always keeping it balanced , willing and galloping straight for the line . |
| 23 | Which would be to make them more dynamic , occasionally broader but always keeping the inner life of each woman as real and as simple as Joyce would herself have wanted . |
| 24 | In both of these jobs she proved to very hard-working and reliable , well able to function on her own but always working as a member of a team . |
| 25 | Quiet , unobtrusive , but always asking questions , gathering information , Corbett must have learnt something from that fool MacAirth . |
| 26 | The gabble continued , not repeating itself word for word but always saying the same thing . |
| 27 | For three years now we had moved stealthily through the darkness , sometimes absurdly confident , sometimes terrified , but always wondering just what sort of man it was that we heard creeping along the wall towards us and what sort of weapon he had in his hand . |
| 28 | Radiotherapy for cancer of the bladder was typically given in two phases ; phase I tumour dose of 40 Gray in 20 daily fractions over four weeks and Phase II 20 Gray in 10 daily fractions over two weeks , the different phases being distinguished by the fields used but always irradiating a similar volume of the rectum . |
| 29 | Blending discipline with spontaneity , rigidity with flexibility , the sportsman develops and refines skills , forming objectives , sometimes meeting them , often falling short , but always extracting meaning and gratification . |
| 30 | Arsenal 's breaks were few but always threatening and Oldham , after a first flurry , found openings increasingly elusive . |