Example sentences of "[coord] always [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not want to make too big an issue of the large sums of money that are spent on taking LTA committee members and officials around the world , travelling in premium class and always staying in the best hotels , although it would seem that it is considerably more than the amount of money actually spent on transporting the competitors themselves . |
| 2 | The man who shared her apartment was surly , unfriendly , and always complaining about the lifts and the garbage disposal . |
| 3 | If they have overprotective parents , always worried and fearful , they may not develop the confidence they need , and become shy and timid , unable to take responsibility and always looking to others to take the lead . |
| 4 | Whilst he was chasing girls ( or were the girls chasing him ? ) and always looking for an easy pound or two , I was deeply concerned by the deteriorating political situation . |
| 5 | I found it difficult to follow their chatter ( you know old Shallot , nosy as hell and always looking for mischief ) , but they seemed most concerned about Lady Francesca 's health . |
| 6 | The boy was offhand and always trying to be clever . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Murray Johnstone has taken the approach of cutting its initial charge to 1 per cent and always dealing on the full spread . |
| 8 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
| 9 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 10 | STRACHAN Never beaten in his heart and always penetrating on the ball 8 |
| 11 | He owed his life to his men , he said , and he had been horrified to discover the conditions in which they lived at home , particularly in the towns — he being a gentleman , you see , and always living in the country in comfort . |
| 12 | And always moving as the restless spheres , |
| 13 | As a party it is described , variously , as characterized by its insurrectionary mentality and always hovering on the brink of insurrection . |
| 14 | A horrible series of futile uprisings against impossible odds and always ending in butchery and defeat for the rebels . |
| 15 | Its grotesque outline keeps popping into view unexpectedly wherever one walks or drives around Lochinver , appearing as a giant thimble and always seeming to be peering inquisitively to see what is happening . |
| 16 | John wanted the light misty at first , then becoming brighter , but always radiating from a focal point at the back of the stage ; Primavera arising from the floor in white must make a ‘ most phallic ’ effect . |
| 17 | Intensely shy but always wanting to be good , she went round the ‘ table ’ , kissing each one of us and hoping for a hug in return . |
| 18 | They also tend to ‘ use up ’ remedies quickly which may need repeating several times an hour at first but always according to the changes in the symptom picture . |
| 19 | The easy course , in fact , in a life of ‘ self-sufficiency ’ is to drift from day to day , working hard but always responding to circumstances ; on a subsistence holding like ours , there is always somewhere to be weeded ; something to be mended or maintained . |
| 20 | ‘ There were three of us in here , ’ said Porter slowly , his gaze flicking from one visitor to the other , but always returning to Anne Hopper . |
| 21 | Is life the countervailing force , now pitiably weak but always improving from its lowly origins , which may lead eventually to a future beyond even the imagination of men like Boltzmann ? |
| 22 | The nearest we get is Helen Thomas 's introduction to the 1932 edition of The South Country about the life he had chosen , oft en suffering ‘ despair and humiliation ’ , but always finding in the country ‘ the comfort he so passionately sought ’ . |
| 23 | In both of these jobs she proved to very hard-working and reliable , well able to function on her own but always working as a member of a team . |