Example sentences of "[was/were] always [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defeats were always caused by the plot : The Plot , the mo'amera , the complot , undefinable and ubiquitous , a conspiracy of treachery in which a foreign hand — Syrian , Palestinian , Israeli , American , French , Libyan , Iranian — was always involved . |
| 2 | The women 's meals were always served in the home of Sheikha Grandmother whether that home was a tent , an areesh , a bungalow , or , as it eventually proved , a palace . |
| 3 | Therefore , while there was support for hunger marches and the General Strike , there was nearly always an emphasis placed upon the constitutional nature of such conflict and , in any case , the working-class interests were always operated through the trade unions to the Labour Party , which emphasized its acceptance of parliamentary politics . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The broods were always born during the day and mortality among the fry was quite low . |
| 6 | Horses to be sold in the market were always tethered to the iron railings along Ox Row , sheep being penned nearby , with cattle towards Blue Boar Row . |
| 7 | Five would be disappointed , but we were always kept on the hop . |
| 8 | In pantomime or musical comedy they might also be required to appear in production numbers with the rest of the company but true chorus dancers were always kept in the background . |
| 9 | Their parts were always written in the key of C , a ‘ crook ’ or detachable length of curved tube determining the key in which the instrument was set . |
| 10 | It may be an over-simplification , but imagine the improvement to our daily lives if everyone always understood everyone else , and it our speech and actions were always interpreted in the way we intended . |
| 11 | Her numerous social activities were always linked with the branch , class or study group . |
| 12 | People were always coming into the shop looking for things to copy . |
| 13 | The film flatly denied that there was any problem with dolphin entanglements in drift-nets , saying that the nets were always set in the direction of the prevailing currents , and as marine mammals generally swam with the currents , entanglement was unlikely . |
| 14 | Penny , tuppence , three ha'penny returns and every denomination of tickets was recorded so that you so showed the erm number of tickets , erm it was possible for a at the end of the week to record what the takings were , per route and the mileage and so , as I told you before , the mileage played a great importance in that you were able to say how much that route was producing per mile run and the erm , in those days it , the erm the receipts worked out , daily receipts , weekly receipts and the progressive total in that year , were always published by the Ipswich Evening Star , round about Tuesday or Wednesday and if you missed them , there 'd be somebo member of the public ringing up to why , answer why you had n't put it in , it was , you know , looked upon then you were , were public transport and the public team that you belonged to them . |
| 15 | For Talulah Gosh were always portrayed as the epitome of anorak-wearing , twee ‘ C86 ’ pop , frivolous indie kids giving rock'n'roll an uncomfortably cute name . |
| 16 | It is a picture of self-respecting and self-reliant people whose expectations were pitifully modest , who knew they could be worse off , who perhaps remembered times when they had been even poorer , but who were always haunted by the spectre of poverty ( as they understood the term ) . |
| 17 | In Great Britain change was later and perhaps less systematic ; but by the reign of George III British ambassadors were always provided by the government with a secretary of embassy , while by the later 1780s the more important legations were also being included in this arrangement . |
| 18 | Barriers and handicaps were always contributing to the alienation he bemoaned and yet instinctively courted . |
| 19 | It was the same burden Northumberland was always singing in the north , and Hotspur from whichever front of his double responsibility was occupying his immediate attention . |
| 20 | Even thereafter , when factional purges were regular , Bubwith was always named to the council . |
| 21 | He was always looking for the beginning of something , and he had the energy of someone starting their career . |
| 22 | He was always looking for the catch . |
| 23 | The Minimalist 's notion of site specificity was always limited to the room , the perfect white cube . |
| 24 | Maisie , in her turn , was always hanging around the school . |
| 25 | ‘ I was always thinking in The Bangles , I have to be me , but there was this group image I had to conform to , ’ she muses . |
| 26 | I was always struck by the eunuchs ' lack of bitterness . |
| 27 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 28 | We stood for some time watching the ‘ Try your strength ’ machine which was always sited by The Fawcett Statue on Blue Boar Row . |
| 29 | I knew many of the manufacturers from my brief career on the amateur circuit , and was always fascinated by the gimmicks that appeared without fail every year . |
| 30 | I was always fascinated by the effect of the sustain pedal — you know , the way you can run one note into another , something like a harp sound . |