Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] always on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was always on edge , eager to be further south . |
| 2 | I was always on my guard , always playing the ‘ macho ’ role but always worried sick in case I was found out . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was always on a machine , cutting , milling machine . |
| 6 | Neil ( singing ironically ) : ‘ You were always on my mi-ind/You were always … ’ |
| 7 | She was always on the alert for a scene of frustration between husband and wife . |
| 8 | She was always on our side . |
| 9 | She was always on the move . |
| 10 | Though we worked in the same department , I saw little of Daisy , as we were always on different shifts . |
| 11 | We was always on the edge anyway . |
| 12 | They were a difficult band to manage because they were always on the brink of breaking up . |
| 13 | My fantasies were never about specific sexual activities , they were always on the level of some emotional transcendence — someone would come along and embrace me and that would be it ; I could n't really envisage what the nitty gritty practical things were . |
| 14 | They were they never worked on the same paper , they were always on |
| 15 | They were always on the subject of war anyway . |
| 16 | Despite having the smaller pack , they were always on top in the scrums and scored two pushover tries , both touched down by McGrath . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He and Chris Grant , on The Thinker , jumped the last together , but it was always on the cards that McCourt would have the upper hand . |
| 19 | I had peripherally helped out at anti-apartheid offices , even gone on CND Easter Marches when I first came over , but it was always on the sidelines . |
| 20 | At first he wore the crown he had found only occasionally , but later it was always on his scarred green skull and he became increasingly silent and brooding . |
| 21 | In October 1978 , Sid Vicious — whom Malcolm McLaren had described as ‘ never seeing a green light ; it was always on red ’ — woke up in his room in the Chelsea Hotel , New York , to find the body of his girlfriend , Nancy Spungen , sprawled on the bathroom floor , dead from multiple knife wounds . |
| 22 | It was always on show , but it was seldom used . |
| 23 | And it was always on that er tramcar , whichever er suburban district they were leaving , was always a packed car . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ it was always on the cards . |
| 25 | Ooh it was always on the road ! |
| 26 | He was always on trial in some celestial courtroom . |
| 27 | He told me he was always on the lookout for new artistes , and offered me a position with his company . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Vincent lived by gusts ; he was always on the move inside himself . |
| 30 | He was always on the move , he said . |