Example sentences of "be always [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you , if you can cool down you 're essentially taking away all that erm extra energy , you 're making things less random , in fact one way to look at low temperature physics is , is to think that we 're always striving after the ideal , we 're trying to make things more and more perfect . |
| 2 | A few birds with long beaks were poking around by the water : how come they stay so clean when they 're always delving in the mud ? |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the past they said men should n't be concerned about their looks and things , but it 's pretty obvious that they are , because boys are always looking in the mirror , and these days they have slicked-back hair and fancy clothes , and that sort of thing . |
| 6 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 7 | This can be expensive and you are always gambling with the possibility that the people who you want to hear your music wo n't come . |
| 8 | To make a character worse than oneself it is only necessary to release imaginatively from control some of the bad passions which , in real life , are always straining at the leash ; the Satan , the Iago , the Becky Sharp , within each of us , is always there and only too ready , the moment the leash is slipped , to come out and have in our books that holiday we try to deny them in life . |
| 9 | LM But natural beings are always living in the expectation or half-expectation of aggression . |
| 10 | They are always quibbling about the amount they are prepared to pay their staff while drawing enormous salaries for themselves . |
| 11 | People were always coming into the shop looking for things to copy . |
| 12 | Barriers and handicaps were always contributing to the alienation he bemoaned and yet instinctively courted . |
| 13 | In Steinam-Rhein , the past is always looking over the shoulder of the present . |
| 14 | Remember that the RC is always pointing towards the station . |
| 15 | ANN McGREGOR , kiosk assistant , Darnley : ‘ My mum is always complaining about the range of tights on sale at Sainsbury 's . |
| 16 | By placing the drama in the past , however , the film is always teetering on the edge of the familiar nostalgic colonial narrative . |
| 17 | It is always running in the background as you work in other applications , ready to switch between applications or control a multitasking session . |
| 18 | she is always going to the hairdresser and having her hair frizzed oh , oh god |
| 19 | After all , the Minister is always returning to the House to tell us what a wonderful deal he has got for the British farmer and consumer . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ Our production is always putting on the pressure . |
| 21 | And Chris , 13 , said proudly : ‘ I entered because my mum 's always complaining about the pong and my pals at school joke about my smelly feet . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was always looking for the beginning of something , and he had the energy of someone starting their career . |
| 24 | He was always looking for the catch . |
| 25 | Maisie , in her turn , was always hanging around the school . |
| 26 | She was always running by the end of this dream , running away from the house , uphill towards the railway line . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I was always heading for the carvery and eating too much . |
| 29 | I was always heading for the carvery and eating too much . |
| 30 | The occasional black eye he had collected early on , when he was still at school , he had attributed to the fights he was always having in the playground , or on the street coming home . |