Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [was/were] always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Yule was prominent on the left wing for Jed while Parker and Shiel were always in the thick of the action when Melrose were on the move . |
| 2 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 3 | Arnold , Williams and Douglas scored second half tries for Gosforth , Johnson adding a conversion and a penalty , but Morley were always in control . |
| 4 | Because Silla was always under attack from its powerful and war-like neighbours , the nobility formed an elite corps of fighting men to defend them . |
| 5 | I had been trying to negotiate the Friday lunch-time run , which was the most lucrative , office-party wise , as ER was always on the lookout for reliable drivers who could not only deliver their people but hang around and pick them up . |