Example sentences of "[be] always [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually he 's not that friendly with Foxy but erm tt says they 're always arguing on the rugby pitch , they 're always , you know , stand at the back and slag each other off and say oh shit or stuff but then erm tt afterwards they sort of end |
| 2 | Because you 're always starting on the root , reversing directions on the root and ending on the root , you 're only using one seventh of the possibilities inherent in each scale . |
| 3 | In the latter case judgements are always made on the student 's overall profile of achievements and no attempt is made to alter marks on modules to produce artificially a higher average . |
| 4 | They are always fighting on the margins just to stay alive . |
| 5 | And it is now recognised that the great mountain chains are always found on the side of the continental plate facing the direction of its drift . |
| 6 | In Sri Lanka the best specimens are always found on the shallower areas of the river-bed and by the water-pools by the river edges , where it is very muddy . |
| 7 | The same is time for visits to schools and for the school quiz , where Catholic schools are always paired on the same side as Protestant ones in order to facilitate , again momentarily , some intercommunal co-operation . |
| 8 | and I just do n't want to move out of being a student because I find that , that more and more problems are , you know I 'm coming up with because , like Melanie saying there is problems with child care , there is erm positive discrimination against women , and we are always discriminated on the sexual harassment in the college is unbelievable and we have to campaign against this and that 's what 's gon na keep me being a student . |
| 9 | I 'm always criticizing on the B B C and I T V. |
| 10 | My small table and chair were always placed on the dinner table near her left elbow , and Glumdalclitch stood near me , in case I needed her help . |
| 11 | Five would be disappointed , but we were always kept on the hop . |
| 12 | In a sense the breakdown of a problem is always based on the old way of looking at the problem . |
| 13 | Though this case is always cited on the issue of whether the performance of a contractual obligation owed to a third party can be good consideration , the principal point at issue was whether the testator made an offer of contract at all . |
| 14 | Because the dower is always settled on the bride and her family either in kind or in cash or both , it has inevitably led to the stigma of ‘ selling and buying ’ , to stories of a girl going to the highest bidder . |
| 15 | By placing the drama in the past , however , the film is always teetering on the edge of the familiar nostalgic colonial narrative . |
| 16 | This is not , in fact , a single theory but an approach which sees racism on the outside of social and political life — sometimes the unwanted blemish is the neo-fascists , sometimes it is immigration laws , other times it is the absence of equal opportunities — yet racism is always located on the surface of other things . |
| 17 | It has flourished for well over 100 years and is always held on the first weekend in July . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ Our production is always putting on the pressure . |
| 19 | cos it 's always advertised on the telly |
| 20 | And it 's always parked on the footpath . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | During office hours the main door of Moorlake House was always left on the latch . |