Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such expressions of wide-eyed optimism were always associated with the New World , or the new nations of the Commonwealth , hardly ever with the Old Country . |
| 2 | Murder was always solved at a cost , sometimes to himself , more often to others . |
| 3 | Yet , their frame of mind was always streaked with anxiety that caused them both to be forever on the watch . |
| 4 | Follow up sclerotharapy was always done after 48 hours unless recurrent bleeding occurred earlier and then at one to two seeks ' interval during the same hospital stay . |
| 5 | At the beginning I was simply a labourer , which entailed doing all the preparation on the ground and ensuring that Eric on the roof was always supplied with materials to work with . |
| 6 | The social chapter was always going to be the item over which the opposition forces would coalesce . |
| 7 | ‘ The stopping and cutting of tape was always said to be very expensive , not only in the cost of the tape but also in the man hours needed to do it . |
| 8 | It was Hornblower 's nature to find no pleasure in achieving things he could do ; his ambition was always yearning after the impossible , to appear a strong silent capable man , unmoved by emotion . |
| 9 | The administration was always discomposed by evidence of Masai unfaithfulness , reacting to it with pained surprise if not outright disbelief . |
| 10 | His work was always informed by a strong historical sense , and he made distinguished contributions to the history of both logic and philosophy . |
| 11 | The local children used to play in the cutting and had for a long time fancied the hut as a den or HQ for their games , but the hut was always locked by a large padlock securing a hasp that was red with rust but still secured the door . |
| 12 | When asked what further services clients and their carers would wish , more home help was always given as their first priority . |
| 13 | Relative coverage of Labour and Conservative was always biased towards the Conservative government but the degree of bias increased sharply ( it tripled ) in the fourth week of the campaign . |
| 14 | Blakeney Upper Mill was always used as a corn mill . |
| 15 | Dried specimens of any sort were always kept by him and roots of many more . |
| 16 | Within the separate police forces , the nuances of uniform difference were always embroidered by ‘ real polises ’ to produce symbolic boundaries from which to assess other uniform wearers . |
| 17 | ‘ The man Angy was always talking about ? |
| 18 | In the Mughal court great importance was always given to small details of protocol and privilege : the colour of a turban , the number of jewels in a noble 's dagger , the place he was assigned in the Red Fort : all these things had significance as subtle indicators to an omrah 's place in the ranking of the empire . |
| 19 | This hair and scalp massage was always accompanied by loud masculine grunts and heavy breathing and gasps of ‘ Ahhh , that 's better ! |
| 20 | A second reason for flexibility was even more fundamental : for all its importance , the Algerian crisis was always subordinated in de Gaulle 's mind to the larger issue of French power and prestige . |
| 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 | Hospice medication was always given in doses adequate to give relief of pain and other symptoms , even at the risk of shortening life , and this could improve , of only temporarily , the quality of life of the patient as it drew to its close . |
| 23 | Bruce Jones , a leading leisure analyst at the broker , Smith New Court , said the outcome was always going to be difficult to call , ‘ given that Cook 's 8 per cent stake was a blocking factor ’ . |
| 24 | His room was always crowded with books . |
| 25 | Visitors were expected to pay in advance but credit was always given to favourites like Modigliani and Leon Trotsky the Russian revolutionary . |
| 26 | But it is entirely characteristic of Williams , whose head was always buzzing with Dante , and with the dangerous borderlines between sacred and profane love , that he should have read The Allegory in that way . |
| 27 | The replies ranged from ‘ not much ’ , because the school had a bursar , to ‘ all day ’ , because a non-teaching head ‘ has to do something all day ’ or because the head was always seen to be going out to talk about devolution ! |
| 28 | When they reached it , they spied two men standing at the ready as they had expected : the passage through the palisade over the water was always manned by a guard or two . |
| 29 | The bulk of the whip was always aimed at the tightly-curved cheeks of her arse , but the tip flicked indiscriminately on to her thighs and belly , and sometimes snaked into the tender cleft between her plump twin moons . |
| 30 | The shearing was always done in the great barn , which had stood on the farm for four centuries . |