Example sentences of "[was/were] always [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He were always a bit of a tyrant . |
| 2 | Oh they had good nights and there were always a crowd of boys there and they used to come in and pinch the . |
| 3 | Shah Jehan 's extraordinary sexual appetites were always a matter of some speculation in the Imperial City , both to travellers and to native Delhi-wallahs . |
| 4 | There were always a number of children in the street . |
| 5 | Mine were always the breed of Norfolk lurcher , a cross between a Smithfield and a greyhound . |
| 6 | But there were always the acres of parkland , garden , and water , and always friends happy to come and stay . |
| 7 | We were always the guests of some local parish priest , and our outings were great fun as we were allowed to run more or less wild once we had arrived . |
| 8 | Above all , he rejected the Marxist view that economic relations were always the explanation of social structure and the prime mover of social change . |
| 9 | This dominance of the political level ensured that the state and its policies were always an instrument of class rule . |
| 10 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 11 | There was always a bottle of cough medicine in all the rooms , even outside in the shed and in a box buried in the vegetable patch . |
| 12 | Since the pomeshchiks depended on the same source — peasant produce — for their income , there was always a conflict of interest over the portion to be paid to the State . |
| 13 | His sense of humour was always a feature of the critics ' circuit ; I treasure a bulging mental file of his roguish observations on fellow critics and luminaries in the music trade . |
| 14 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 15 | Vic Furlong : ‘ He was always a bit of a dreamer in that I 'd give him a job to do , come back in about an hour and he was still chatting , the job unfinished , so he had to go . |
| 16 | Until the English Tourist Board introduced their classification schemes , choosing somewhere to stay was always a bit of a gamble . |
| 17 | ‘ She was always a bit of a tomboy , yer sister , ’ Rab said . |
| 18 | She 's very muddly and disorganized and I can see so clearly where she falls wrong … when I lived at home it was always a bit of a nightmare because I was always trying to get things straight . |
| 19 | Then he went down in this loose scrum , should n't have been there , but he was always a bit of a hero , and I put my foot in looking for the ball and there he was . |
| 20 | ‘ She was always a bit of a mystery to me ; her sons worshipped her — I 'm not so sure about Sara . |
| 21 | It so happened that erm Tom tha who I was working with , see he was on Shift er Shift F and er there was always a bit of rivalry between the various shifts as er , as to erm , you know , who did the better job and all this sort of thing |
| 22 | He had money and was always a bit of a dilettante . |
| 23 | After appel I collected some books from my locker — my locker was in a comer and there was always a pile of block rubbish in front of it so that it was a business to open and shut the door — and went out towards the library . |
| 24 | There was always a diversity of practice — as there still is — in religious attitudes , customs and modes of worship . |
| 25 | At that time it was a tradition that when someone in a family died there was always a bow of black ribbon draped over the top of their photograph frame . |
| 26 | Whatever the explanation , for some of us there was always a sense of fear in this secluded spot and that moreover linked to a train . |
| 27 | On leaving the little station there was always a sense of freshness and freedom . |
| 28 | They also loved their partner to take the initiative as they found it boring if sex was always a case of the man trying it on . |
| 29 | And er never shoes they were always boots , did n't have sort of half shoes it was always a pair of boots that you had . |
| 30 | Once we reached the far side of the bridge we went via a very old iron kissing gate into the field which early in summer was always a mass of buttercups . |