Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] always [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Both parents were always at the beck and call of the general public .
2 It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest .
3 Plays were always in the afternoon , because of the daylight .
4 In and out of the camp Billy made sure that his camp and his model of the people 's pleasures were always in the public eye .
5 These differences were always in the same direction — more pronounced hormonal responses and more reporting of symptoms with porcine insulin .
6 Camping holidays were always in the rain , but my parents would constantly remind us throughout the fortnight that the sun was ‘ trying to come out ’ .
7 Her boys were always in the throes of what she euphemistically called summer colic .
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