Example sentences of "was always [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | He was always looking for the beginning of something , and he had the energy of someone starting their career . |
| 3 | He was always looking for the catch . |
| 4 | Maisie , in her turn , was always hanging around the school . |
| 5 | But the truth is that Mellor was always riding for a fall . |
| 6 | She was always running by the end of this dream , running away from the house , uphill towards the railway line . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was always heading for the carvery and eating too much . |
| 9 | I was always heading for the carvery and eating too much . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Moor Scope battled on gamely to retake the lead from Impy Condor on the flat in the Confined and Farmer Tom was always going like a winner in the Restricted race , in which Alner and even-money favourite Baron Bob crashed at the second fence . |
| 12 | Tony was always preparing for the future with David and with MainMan , so he was always two or three steps ahead of himself . |
| 13 | I was always waiting for the day when I would be beaten up , but it never came . |
| 14 | He was always talking about the board he was having shaped back in Sydney . |
| 15 | ‘ He was always talking about the past but I wanted to introduce him to the present . |
| 16 | William suggested , because she 'd just bought Mary Ann Evans 's and was always talking about the trouble she was having finding good staff . |