Example sentences of "[was/were] always [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil ( singing ironically ) : ‘ You were always on my mi-ind/You were always … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You were always with him . |
| 5 | You were always with him . |
| 6 | Problems of rot were always with us but there were other problems as well which were just as serious . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And wounded animals were always at their most dangerous when cornered . |
| 9 | We were always at our desks by nine , taking short breaks only for meals and often working late into the night . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Battered wives like Sara Thornton — serving life for killing her violent husband — were always in her thoughts . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ma was always at her most unreasonable on do-days , and I must have known it was a do-day because not only did we have extra help in the house , but Nanny had been co-opted into the kitchen to make pastry . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ And that 's it ? ’ said her papa quietly ; he was always at his most dangerous when he was quiet . |
| 17 | The great thing about Angie was that she was always for him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her love was always for her people , and the quotations from her historic speeches ( which are not set to music ) represent her carefully-chosen communications to them . |
| 20 | In the morning when we woke , the first awareness was always of their new and sumptuous heaviness lying across our feet . |
| 21 | He expected to die , but the expectation was always of something remote , deferred . |
| 22 | But when we came into the straight again he was always beside me , running , panting , straining to get ahead just as I was . |
| 23 | At one end was a compartment for the two armed guards who always travelled with a consignment of this kind , and in the partition between their compartment and the portion where the bullion was stored , there were portholes , or bull 's eyes , of stout glass , so that the interior was always under their view . |
| 24 | But soon she was always with them . ’ |
| 25 | His mother or his father or one of the group was always with him . |
| 26 | Yet this was always with him . |
| 27 | Her face , innocent and angelic , was always with him . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The gang was always with me . |
| 30 | What he says about it : ‘ Music was always with me . |