Example sentences of "[noun] was always [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loved her humour and the fact that she treated him as an equal , although their business was always conducted on the most formal lines . |
| 2 | He hoped fervently that they would go back to Florence and had dropped several hints in the hope of getting this information out of them , but the Captain was always concentrating on the job in hand as if nothing else mattered and the magistrate only smiled and nodded distractedly , his mind apparently elsewhere . |
| 3 | Initial training was always provided on a one-to-one basis because workers were recruited at different times to perform tasks of varying types . |
| 4 | A list was always made on these occasions and Pascoe glanced quickly down it . |
| 5 | The identification of the so-called Jurassic Way was always based on the very flimsy evidence that it linked some six or seven Iron Age sites . |
| 6 | During office hours the main door of Moorlake House was always left on the latch . |