Example sentences of "[be] always [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They 're always knocking the government in this country , it 's not much the government are , are they ?
2 Oh they 're always changing the position .
3 I suppose if you are always breaking the law it creates a lot of pressure . ’
4 His hands are always holding the cylinder which contains his stones .
5 ‘ They are always turning the heating up and down .
6 He s always encouraging the team .
7 Right which English monarch , I 'm always getting the Monarch ones , had a had a red hot poker shoved up his royal
8 Back up to the lungs , okay , now in that little system there , there 's just one thing that 's interesting to note , when you spoke about circulatory system this morning or yesterday rather with Audrey , you spoke about the blood being always leaving the heart , yes , via the arteries , yes
9 ‘ Thereafter we were always chasing the match and late on we gave a try away after attempting to break out of defence . ’
10 Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants .
11 CHAT show host David Letterman offers these signs that your marriage is n't working : YOUR wife is always leaving the dinner table to go on dates .
12 I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it .
13 The bearded head gardener who is always tending the apple tree ; the wise old sea-captain who never rushes to judgment ; the character you 're not quite introduced to , but who is giving you a creepy feeling by Chapter Four … pack them off into storage , all of them .
14 Erm so you need to develop a system that 's going to always give you a method and is always making the work easier for you and not getting you lost .
15 The Minister is always making the case there there is no need for legislative change .
16 I think Bryony likes erm Smarties because she 's always sucking the juice out of beans .
17 She 's always reading the fashion mags and spends loads of money on clothes .
18 And when I do he 's always watching the cricket . ’
19 I mean some people were quite willing to answer it and they were quite willing to say what stereotypes they usually employ and others j er just clam up and said , oh I never judge people , and I thought yeah liar doing all the time ? biggest gossips in the office and she 's never got a good word to say about anyone , she 's always digging the dirt but when I presented her with it , I never try to judge people .
20 Mother 's always saying the house should be exorcised . ’
21 Registering 30.80 , Davy McClenaghan 's black bitch was always holding the staying-on Mineola Gift and she 'll be hard to beat again if beating Express to the corner .
22 ‘ He was always acting the goat , that 's why I got to know him .
23 He was always confusing the class with his exclamations .
24 You 're doing what I was always doing the red , the yellow , but try it again .
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