Example sentences of "[pron] was always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was always wanted for something , and I was never in one place for too long . |
| 2 | I was always struck by the eunuchs ' lack of bitterness . |
| 3 | I was always fascinated with harmony , anyway , from the '60s records that I grew up with — the Everly Brothers , Buddy Holly and the Crickets . |
| 4 | I was always fascinated by the effect of the sustain pedal — you know , the way you can run one note into another , something like a harp sound . |
| 5 | When I was a child and had never even heard the word ‘ regression ’ , I was always fascinated by anything to do with the Tudor period of English history . |
| 6 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 7 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 8 | ‘ Karel played a good match but I was always struggling with my timing . |
| 9 | ‘ I was always thinking in The Bangles , I have to be me , but there was this group image I had to conform to , ’ she muses . |
| 10 | I was always looking for a short-term miracle . |
| 11 | I was always waiting for Saturday . |
| 12 | I was always waiting for the day when I would be beaten up , but it never came . |
| 13 | I was always heading for the carvery and eating too much . |
| 14 | I was always heading for the carvery and eating too much . |
| 15 | When I regained control , telling myself , ‘ It 's OK , you 're not taped , you 're not in the truck , ’ I was always left with a residue of remembered fear , which built up in the back of my mind . |
| 16 | And I was always saying to the girls at school for heavens sake keep your hair back , it 's only bunches , whatever , back when they was younger they always had plait or bunches , . |
| 17 | Miss Young was Ian 's teacher , not mine , but from time to time she used to read to our class ; and I was always captivated by her stories . |
| 18 | Well , I was always going to be an artist and it was always assumed that I would leave South Africa and go to somewhere like Italy and study at an art school . |
| 19 | I was always described as the heretic at school , a designation which was theologically accurate enough and did n't particularly disturb me ; it seemed a not unkind acknowledgement of whatever distances I carried with me . |
| 20 | I was always attracted by the lifestyle of a nun , particularly that of a contemplative . |
| 21 | ‘ I was always pissed off that , intellectually , we were looked down upon . |
| 22 | At every step I was told not to do it because I was bound to suffer from the kind of prejudice I was always talking about . |
| 23 | I was always greeted with warmth and affection . |
| 24 | The stair of my billet creaked , however , and no matter how carefully I tiptoed , in the morning I was always greeted with , ‘ We heard you come in last night ’ , and of course I felt guilty , especially as we could not defend ourselves , having to pretend that our work was of no account . |
| 25 | I was always surrounded by strong images — the image of the café , how it looked and the service it provided . |
| 26 | I was always allowed into my mother 's room , despite the secrets . |
| 27 | I realize now that somewhere inside myself this is what I was always longing for . ’ |
| 28 | We stood for some time watching the ‘ Try your strength ’ machine which was always sited by The Fawcett Statue on Blue Boar Row . |
| 29 | The habitats which have been hardest hit by the post-war agricultural revolution are on land which was always regarded as the most marginal : the barest hilltops , the steepest hillsides , and the wettest valley bottoms . |
| 30 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |