Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] always [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social chapter was always going to be the item over which the opposition forces would coalesce . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The man Angy was always talking about ? |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She probably told the whole village that the doctor 's wife was always complaining to the local shopkeepers . ’ |
| 7 | That is why the Maastricht summit was always going to be important well beyond its paper agenda . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A man with a past was always going to be more worth knowing that a man without one . |
| 10 | The referees for the 1991 World Cup were always going to be placed under close scrutiny by the media , as well as spectators both at the ground and watching on television , and so it turned out . |
| 11 | It worries the lawyers , and the insurance company were always fussing about keeping it in a private house . |
| 12 | An absolute guarantee of choice of school was always going to be impossible . |
| 13 | the second game against benneton treviso was always going to be the real test … |
| 14 | The grey was always trailing at Marks Tey , where his saddle slipped , but had earlier scored a runaway success at Cottenham . |
| 15 | City tried hard to get back into it but their task was always going to be maintenance , although Paul Hackett struck a good goal in a move involving several players , to reduce the area on seventy four minutes . |