Example sentences of "and [pron] [was/were] always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was always saying to the girls at school for heavens sake keep your hair back , it 's only bunches , whatever , back when they was younger they always had plait or bunches , . |
| 2 | Miss Young was Ian 's teacher , not mine , but from time to time she used to read to our class ; and I was always captivated by her stories . |
| 3 | There were a few couples whose friendship was of long standing and who were always seen about together . |
| 4 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 5 | ( ) ’ ) . Cooper painted these images in the landscape around his home area of Canterbury and they were always intended for an urban albeit regional art market . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Headmasters were always members of the council , in those days , and they were always tended to be La Liberal or Labour , which I the present Labour would say was very pale pink . |
| 8 | Spices suited this situation very well : they had a high value in proportion to their weight , they could not be produced in Europe , and they were always valued by rich people who used them to mask the taste of the not-too-well preserved meat which was the best that anyone could hope for in the winter . |
| 9 | Their offices faced right on to our living quarters and they were always staring at us . |
| 10 | In my youth there was a man who lived in our block of buildings who was a champion boxer while in the Army in India and he was always known as being doolally tap . |
| 11 | You 'd get bogged down and you could n't use the path and it was always overgrown in the summer . |
| 12 | He did not say much when they met and it was always muffled by the lapels of his coat . |
| 13 | ‘ Our purpose in coming has been to give people experience and it was always going to be a hard tournament against Brazil and Germany . |