Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon and I were always in trouble because of the garden . |
| 2 | Also , I was always under the impression that the likes of Constable , whilst in full knowledge that they were at the top of their profession , regarded themselves as craftsmen . |
| 3 | Well I was always with him , I was brought up with it , you see and then we got the humane killer come along then , yeah and it was quite easy then . |
| 4 | I was always with an older policeman . |
| 5 | I was always on edge , eager to be further south . |
| 6 | I was always on my guard , always playing the ‘ macho ’ role but always worried sick in case I was found out . |
| 7 | I was always on agreeable terms with George Brown both in and out of office , although his well-known tendency to get drunk disrupted our relations on one or two occasions . |
| 8 | It used to make me really mad because some of me brothers and sisters used to get put in the same homes together , but I was always on my own . |
| 9 | I was always on a machine , cutting , milling machine . |
| 10 | WHEN I WAS a child , I was always at Wuthering Heights , because my mother was a servant with the Earnshaw family . |
| 11 | ( I was always like that , ever ready to give a tactful word of comfort . ) |
| 12 | I was always against her burying herself there . |
| 13 | I do n't think that one could have a consensus with that regard , I mean people were split really on that issue erm as I have said , personally I was always against the whole thing , against the war in general between Iraq and Iran because it was devastating for both countries . |
| 14 | ‘ When I started I was always in a hurry , wanting to get it done , to get up there . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't have the slightest desire to see the restitution of my father 's property , ’ he added in that 1968 interview , and ‘ I was always in favour of socialism in the sense of nationalisation of major means of production . ’ |
| 16 | So I was always in the middle trying to keep the conversation going . |
| 17 | Fox recalls : ‘ I was always in Dale 's shadow . |
| 18 | ‘ I was always in a position of setting a precedent , which gave me a definite advantage . |
| 19 | " We were never well off , " said a retired miner from the Durham coalfield , " but I was always in employment and I would n't have liked my wife to work . " |
| 20 | Oh yes , I 've al I was always in the union . |
| 21 | So I went to a very good secondary school but I was in the A one stream right the way through and I was always within that top three of that A one stream and it gave me confidence and I really got on . |
| 22 | Recently , however , it has been pointed out that mansi absi were often registered as owing dues , which were always in cash rather than labour services . |
| 23 | Lovat listened to Topaz , torn between anger directed against Horatia Manners , and admiration for his wife 's loveliness which was always at its best when she was in a rage . |
| 24 | Gimson 's view of life — which was always to be that of the ‘ idealist individualist ’ — was formed more by the mood and the standards of that crowded , argumentative , intellectually zealous , middle-class , provincial household than by his formal education . |
| 25 | The critical factor in the ‘ many sided problem ’ was felt to be the question of ‘ Rights and Duties within the State ’ , and their relation to the wider issues arising out of an increasingly democratic society , notably that of the ‘ sectional interest ’ of the labour movement , which was always of profound concern to the New Liberals who regarded it as undermining political stability and social harmony . |
| 26 | The death of the King ended the client relationship which was always between the Emperor and a particular ruler , and the presence of such a kingdom within the Province was now a political anomaly . |
| 27 | Simultaneously , Task Force Semper Fidelis , composed of US marines and military police , seized the main road across the canal , the Bridge of the Americas , and secured the approaches to Howard Air Force Base , which was always under US military control . |
| 28 | Even less had they diminished the image of Topaz which was always in his mind 's eye . |
| 29 | The boys in my class would come to school during the opera season , which was always in the winter , and discuss the previous night 's performance at every opportunity . |
| 30 | We just passed them out to crazy people and artistes and people who were always on the scene in New York . |