Example sentences of "[was/were] always [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birds were always with them ; robins watched with bright eyes and sang as they passed ; wrens flew suddenly and low from branch to bush ; great tits rang out their bell-notes unseen from the tree-tops ; tree-creepers trickled headlong and caterwise down the creviced trunks of the oaks ; woodpeckers kept up a constant drum-rattle on the hollow branches , the sound coming now from the right , now from the left , now in front , now behind ; wood-pigeons wooed one another in secret leafy recesses , comforting , encouraging , cajoling ; rooks sprang upwards cawing into the blue sky as they passed beneath their nests ; and higher still , up towards the sun , they caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling , buzzards , kites , eagles . |
| 2 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 3 | You were always with him . |
| 4 | You were always with him . |
| 5 | Problems of rot were always with us but there were other problems as well which were just as serious . |
| 6 | But my grandfather on my mother ; s side and my grandmother too both won military awards in the first war for bravery , so the oral traditions of both wars were always with us . |
| 7 | Except that we were never completely apart , my love , for you were always beside me , and you were always there , and I think that without you there there were times when I should certainly have been crushed by the weight of a Crown I did not really want . |
| 8 | well they were always against me , well Bill was during the war , what I 'd done to them , finished all the decorating , put shelves up , go on the slate to put his aerial up , he would n't go up , I had to climb out my bedroom window onto the gutter and its a wonder I did n't kill myself then , put his aerial up and |
| 9 | He was n't sure if Christine believed him , but that was what made it worth it , gave things an edge , the bluff in a game where the rest were always against you . |
| 10 | The great thing about Angie was that she was always for him . |
| 11 | After this Louis XIV spent relatively little money on his navy ; he had to defend his frontiers against the threat of invasion by land through Belgium , and naval supremacy was always for him a secondary consideration . |
| 12 | But when we came into the straight again he was always beside me , running , panting , straining to get ahead just as I was . |
| 13 | But soon she was always with them . ’ |
| 14 | His mother or his father or one of the group was always with him . |
| 15 | Yet this was always with him . |
| 16 | Her face , innocent and angelic , was always with him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The gang was always with me . |
| 19 | What he says about it : ‘ Music was always with me . |
| 20 | Andrew was always with her , walking a few steps out of her reach . |
| 21 | But then , he was always with her . |
| 22 | And the tumble dryer , was it still turning or was it the sound of the Meloch that was always with us ? |
| 23 | During the next few years the plague was always with us . |
| 24 | In summer the smell of Flit was always with us . |
| 25 | Her husband was always with us but as a couple they were difficult to dislodge without rudeness . |
| 26 | His vocabulary was curiously outdated : he went , not to a film or the cinema but to the ‘ movies ’ , and ha'penny was always by him pronounced ‘ half-penny ’ . |
| 27 | We used to catch a lot of fish and it was always in them days you used to catch the trout in the Summer and you used to dry them on the on the dykes and hang them on the line like you could see haddocks and that drying . |
| 28 | Barry was unable to give the police a description of his assailant as he was always behind him and ripped out the mirror from his car before they drove to Perry 's . |
| 29 | Provided their behaviour was sportsmanlike and safe , oarsmen found only encouragement and humour from a President who was always among them . |
| 30 | I was always against her burying herself there . |