Example sentences of "[pron] were always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few couples whose friendship was of long standing and who were always seen about together . |
| 2 | This was especially true of the Fire Service , our immediate neighbours , and it applied equally to those in the adjacent Gateshead Borough Police and Northumberland Constabulary , who were always talked of as being a lesser breed of mortals . |
| 3 | It is a picture of self-respecting and self-reliant people whose expectations were pitifully modest , who knew they could be worse off , who perhaps remembered times when they had been even poorer , but who were always haunted by the spectre of poverty ( as they understood the term ) . |
| 4 | So you were always , you were always faced with this er coming from the membership you know , that we were always like the cow 's tail you know , we 'll always be behind . |
| 5 | You were always getting into trouble then . " |
| 6 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 7 | You were always suited for this . ’ |
| 8 | In my day-dreams and nightmares you were always clothed in those washed-out jeans : I can still see their frayed , ravelled seams with their bleached , raggy threads softened by countless abrasions and grindings , the frazzled button-holes , the worn buttons showing the cheap metal underneath . |
| 9 | We were always looking for someone who could give us help . |
| 10 | Carolyn recalls : ‘ We used to do midnight runs , we were always skimming around London on undercover operations in Diana 's Metro . ’ |
| 11 | For instance , on cinema nights we were always assured of good seats as one of his armourers was regularly on the door collecting tickets , and he made sure we had a good view . |
| 12 | ‘ We were always trying to be creative and to shock ! ’ |
| 13 | Five would be disappointed , but we were always kept on the hop . |
| 14 | I thought it was a big world , for we were always going to conventions and special meetings where , so it seemed then , there were thousands of others like myself . |
| 15 | " Whenever we tried to escape before we were always captured by the Moi . |
| 16 | You know come down and touch , they were always wanting to be with your horses . |
| 17 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 18 | The chairman , Martin Jay , told me they were always looking for new ideas to raise money but they want to keep it an event for the family , a rural event based on the race . |
| 19 | They were always looking for some cowardly advantage . |
| 20 | ‘ They were always thinking of things to do with me . |
| 21 | ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’ |
| 22 | ( ) ’ ) . Cooper painted these images in the landscape around his home area of Canterbury and they were always intended for an urban albeit regional art market . |
| 23 | WILL SEES the dance music that the Shamen produce as being what they were always working towards ‘ although we did n't know what we were working towards at the time ’ , and agrees with Timothy Learny 's assertion that music and dance can be more powerful agents of changing consciousness than chemicals . |
| 24 | WILL SEES the dance music that the Shamen produce as being what they were always working towards ‘ although we did n't know what we were working towards at the time ’ , and agrees with Timothy Learny 's assertion that music and dance can be more powerful agents of changing consciousness than chemicals . |
| 25 | Until that time the Royal Academy of Arts , which was founded in 1768 , was the only body in England with a substantial representation of architects among its membership , although they were always out-numbered by painters and sculptors . |
| 26 | Sometimes he would eye young women in the street , but they were always accompanied by maids or chaperones . |
| 27 | That hours of work were stated for many trades does not mean that they were always worked to the full . |
| 28 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 29 | Then she realised that it must be Ianthe Broome , the canon 's daughter they were always talking about , and perhaps in some way a kind of ‘ rival ’ for the affections of a man she had not yet seen . |
| 30 | Their offices faced right on to our living quarters and they were always staring at us . |