Example sentences of "he be always [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youth could n't have been an inch over five feet three , skinny with dark curly hair and flashing eyes that never seemed to be still , as if he were always on the lookout for trouble . |
| 2 | The earth curved up and around me wherever I went , as if I were at the bottom of a dish , and no matter how far I travelled I could get no nearer the rim — like a spaceman hurtling , as he thinks , towards the edge of the universe , only to find it unfolding before him and closing in behind , so that he is always at the centre . |
| 3 | ‘ Ken Livingstone 's problem is that he is always on the television slagging the party off . ’ |
| 4 | Yet despite his fame , despite the feeling that he is always in the public eye , he is making only his third TV appearance in a decade in A Foreign Field ( Sunday , BBC1 , 9.05pm ) . |
| 5 | Oh he 's always at the doctors ! |
| 6 | And he 's fond of Jean-Claude , he 's always on the telephone … . |
| 7 | " He 's always on the look-out , watching the corner of some covert , " her father sounded a bit impatient . |
| 8 | It 's difficult to contact him , because he 's always on the move . ’ |
| 9 | He 's always in the Opera House . |
| 10 | He was always under the doctor . |
| 11 | ‘ He was always about the place . |
| 12 | He was always on the watch for an affront , which he would often imagine even when it had not been intended , an easy thing for a Frenchman at a politically sensitive time . |
| 13 | He told me he was always on the lookout for new artistes , and offered me a position with his company . |
| 14 | Vincent lived by gusts ; he was always on the move inside himself . |
| 15 | He was always on the move , he said . |
| 16 | A country vet , especially in the Yorkshire Dales , never had the chance to get out of condition ; he was always on the move , wrestling with the big animals , walking for miles between the fell-side barns ; he was hard and tough . |
| 17 | He was always against the Poet 's Pub idea . |
| 18 | But when darkness fell , he was always in the bushes by the gate ; and waking in the night I would sometimes hear a shrill cry , ‘ Come out then ! |
| 19 | He had that wonderful stretch when he was always in the frame and he won five times in Europe , including the British Open . |