Example sentences of "was always [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Even thereafter , when factional purges were regular , Bubwith was always named to the council . |
| 3 | He was always looking for the beginning of something , and he had the energy of someone starting their career . |
| 4 | He was always looking for the catch . |
| 5 | The Minimalist 's notion of site specificity was always limited to the room , the perfect white cube . |
| 6 | Maisie , in her turn , was always hanging around the school . |
| 7 | Her moon-shaped face was always split with a smile , even when she was scooping up dog turds with a device the handle of which was at least two feet shorter than I would have wanted it to be . |
| 8 | Historically , Newcastle as the regional capital was always governed with a concern for style and consumption ( see Byrne , forthcoming ) , but this is now crucial in what were totally industrial locations . |
| 9 | He loved his sister , but this love was always overlaid with a trace of anxiety . |
| 10 | He was a tall man with dark hair that was always hidden under a hat . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When they reached it , they spied two men standing at the ready as they had expected : the passage through the palisade over the water was always manned by a guard or two . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But the truth is that Mellor was always riding for a fall . |
| 15 | Purity workers believed they had an obligation to reclaim their ‘ fallen ’ sisters , but the problem of prostitution was always tackled by a mixture of benevolent charity and coercive threat . |
| 16 | She was housekeeper to a nano , a dwarf , called Appio who was always dressed in a suit with baggy trousers which made his rather stout figure look even broader . |
| 17 | One of Niki 's tactics in that elaborate form of board game called ‘ driver negotiations ’ ( i.e. how does a driver get the best car and the most money ? ) was always to talk to a lot of teams , hinting , not so subtly , that ‘ if the package was right ’ , he could be seduced . |
| 18 | I was always described as the heretic at school , a designation which was theologically accurate enough and did n't particularly disturb me ; it seemed a not unkind acknowledgement of whatever distances I carried with me . |
| 19 | It is that is was always discussed in the context of cost within the business and cost to industry . |
| 20 | She was always running by the end of this dream , running away from the house , uphill towards the railway line . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We confirmed the clear correlation of histologically proven candida infection , which was always confined to the oesophagus , with the presence of dysphagia . |
| 23 | I used to look at her and admire her but I also felt sorry for her because she was always confined to the flat . |
| 24 | Iconography as studied by Panofsky and Saxl was always directed towards the history of ideas ; it had a specific philosophical slant , whether Neo-Platonic , Stoic or humanist . |
| 25 | But breakfast was the exception and was always taken in the kitchen , although Melanie never found out why . |
| 26 | As earlier stated a vineyard was always associated with the Palace , in the year 1325 , Edward II who when travelling through Kent , was resting at Bokinfold , was sent a gift of wine from the Bishop 's vineyard at Halling . |
| 27 | You 'd get bogged down and you could n't use the path and it was always overgrown in the summer . |
| 28 | Er when it was needed it wa it was always needed in a hurry . |
| 29 | So it was things that was n't too heavy to carry but things that was always needed in a house and that you could run out of . |
| 30 | He said the ‘ fittest ’ patient in the intensive care ward was the one who was always chosen for the ambulance ride . |