Example sentences of "they are always [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 2 | The idea that older people live in the past , that they are always talking about the ‘ good old days ’ is common , and reminiscence has often been devalued as merely the aimless meanderings of an increasingly decrepit mind . |
| 3 | They are always dominated by the strong . |
| 4 | They are always fighting on the margins just to stay alive . |
| 5 | They are always quibbling about the amount they are prepared to pay their staff while drawing enormous salaries for themselves . |
| 6 | Now if you think about commercial potatoes and the ones that keep , the late ones , they are always harvested after the have died down , a long time after , in fact some of them are still digging up potatoes now . |
| 7 | These questions are never asked seriously , they are always taken in the form of amusement or conversationally . |