Example sentences of "[noun pl] always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ate pasta , the Substitute continuing to ask rapid questions while winding rapid forkfuls , his eyes always fixed on the Captain 's . |
| 2 | AND now the latest in corporate hospitality for pleasing clients always aspiring to something better : croquet . |
| 3 | However , the AIB inspectors always try to be helpful and provide the coroner with the basic information he needs to establish the cause of death , but nonetheless , they sometimes get little thanks for the efforts they make to assist the coroner and sometimes they are treated in a rather off-hand manner . |
| 4 | B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time . |
| 5 | It may not be necessary for all cars always to stop at a red light at a crossroads , but to have any other rule , such as ‘ stop when reasonable to do so ’ , or ‘ stop unless the road is clear ’ , invites chaos . |
| 6 | The lunchtime crush at the Washington was beginning to thin ; but the serious drinkers always gathered round the bar for their last stand . |
| 7 | The hippos , she thought , with a sure hunter 's instinct , the hippos always mate at the full moon , to whelp during the monsoon , as they had since Tertiary times . |
| 8 | This is , of course , what efficient readers always do in their reading . |
| 9 | Genesis is exhilarating and exuberant orthodox big-band music of a kind rarely played with such punch any more and the sharpness of the CD enhances the brash , headlong momentum of it — Tracey 's orchestras always sound as if they are going to work with the elan of Saturday night at the Savoy ballroom . |
| 10 | ( Piers always talking about his American grandmother . ) |
| 11 | Martin held him at the knees always pushing inside him like warm water pouring in . |
| 12 | A fairly similar situation is found if we ask if can precede and ; some RP speakers have in ‘ lunch ’ , ‘ French ’ , etc. , and never pronounce the sequence within a syllable , while other speakers always have in these contexts and never . |
| 13 | It was observed that Joanne 's temper tantrums always began with shrill screaming , the other behaviours followed on as she got ‘ into the swing of it ’ . |
| 14 | For centuries the argument continued without any real evidence on either side , but in 1803 the British chemist and physicist , John Dalton , pointed out that the fact that chemical compounds always combined in certain proportions could be explained by the grouping together of atoms to form units called molecules . |
| 15 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 16 | The grandchildren always bathed in her kitchen rather than at home , and she ‘ looked after our heads ’ for lice , while after the bath the blind grandfather ‘ used to tickle our backs with stick in front of fire . ’ |
| 17 | The Conservatives always look after their own . |
| 18 | For the sake of standardization the London Companies always worked to the lowest common denominator ! ) |
| 19 | The Name of the Father moves the child away from imaginary , fantastic representations of the world , where signifiers and signifieds correspond exactly , into the symbolic order , where gaps always exist between signifiers , between signifieds , and between these two levels . |
| 20 | Their lives always seemed to him to be more complete than those of men , more … together , somehow , less compartmentalized . |
| 21 | Unless you were of ‘ a nervous disposition ’ ( what a lovely genteel phrase that is ) you were unlikely to be distressed by these tales of goodies versus the bad monsters , especially as the goodies always won in the end . |
| 22 | Arabs always seem to be either in a great hurry or without any sense of time at all . |
| 23 | Personal appearances always seemed to be a bone of contention . |
| 24 | Funny , is n't it , how people in tight corners always turn to you ? ’ |
| 25 | Did people in tight corners always turn to her ? |
| 26 | It may not be the part nearest the house , though this is where sitting out areas always tend to be made . |
| 27 | What marks the ‘ explanation ’ range is the assertion of only the weak determinism involved in claiming that similar effects always occur in similar conditions . |
| 28 | Your shoes always had to be clean , brushed , you see ? |
| 29 | one of the fast-fatteners always laughed at , |
| 30 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |