Example sentences of "[pron] [be] always [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He and I are always spending time together but we are not romantically inclined , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I 'm always urging people to hurry up . |
| 3 | He says Well , he says , I 'm always getting mail here for twenty three Lilac Avenue , New Brighton . |
| 4 | Which I think would be a good idea if we got it because I do n't know about you but I 'm always having arguments with people who say oh we ca n't have the whole country covered in windmills and |
| 5 | I was asking you cos I 'm always having arguments with the |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm always having rows with his owner about where he should run , but it does n't seem to bother the horse . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm always finding mud from your boots on my pillow . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm always sitting thinking if I had n't got them , I 'd be thinking now was it on the card I have n't got you know |
| 9 | As a child I was always taking things apart then putting them back together . ’ |
| 10 | I was always doing landscapes outside ; so I know what it is to be working out in the field in December at six o'clock in the morning . |
| 11 | The last tour , I had so much stuff and I was always having trouble with it breaking down and having to troubleshoot . |
| 12 | No matter whether or not you have an assignment which specifically calls for image work , you are always doing image work on behalf of your client . |
| 13 | You 're always buying things and then wanting |
| 14 | In my state , you 're always hoping things are random . |
| 15 | oh alright , he 's put them down somewhere and he ca n't find them , and he thought perhaps you might of picked them up , cos you 're always picking things up you should n't are n't you ? |
| 16 | You 're always getting sand in your eye are n't you ? |
| 17 | But you 're always having sweets . |
| 18 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 19 | " You 're always going red . |
| 20 | She 's always puttin' flowers there and lightin' candles . |
| 21 | I mean she 's always wearing heels |
| 22 | She 's always buying flowers for that BVM . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It has n't dawned on her yet , and anyway she 's always finding people to look after her , or so she thinks . |
| 24 | ‘ She was always taking throat lozenges and cough mixtures . |
| 25 | And she was always bringing people together . " |
| 26 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Except she was always catching colds . ’ |
| 28 | She was always giving orders to Kamala , who had to obey . |
| 29 | She was always cutting pictures out of magazines and sticking them on her wall . |
| 30 | One person could cope provided that she was always doing things . |