Example sentences of "be always [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 're always having a fag when I pull into a petrol station |
| 2 | Now you 're always making a balance in developing drugs and I have nothing to do with the drug industry , I 'm a G P , you have a balance between trying to move things forward to get people better and on the other hand making sure that you 're not going to do them any great harm . |
| 3 | Are always having a fight |
| 4 | The island county offered a stubborn reply but were always chasing a target well out of their reach and finally fell short on 155 all out . |
| 5 | They were always having a go , the hard men , those who 'd blow up the Pope if they thought it would help the cause . |
| 6 | You were always offered a cup of tea . " |
| 7 | And I would n't say that we were being fleeced , I mean I , I think we 've always been fleeced up to a certain point but they were always making a loss in the past and |
| 8 | Because the first action to generate a rectangle is always to create a duplicate of the previous one this need not be triggered ; it is a provision of the structure . |
| 9 | Bob is always creating a song . |
| 10 | The boy goes by at about the same time each day , and he is always carrying a bag . |
| 11 | He 's at a party in Toronto to honour his pal Warren Beatty ; someone is always giving a party for Beatty and when they do n't he gives one for himself . |
| 12 | To widen a car eighteen millimetres is equivalent to widening goal posts by half a foot ; to violate the rules is always to seek an advantage . |
| 13 | ‘ Britain 's always wanted a heavyweight champion , and I believe Lennox is the only man capable of giving us one , ’ Maloney said . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's always wanted a daughter . |
| 15 | My son , who 's in his teens , ca n't do long division , simply because he was n't paying attention , presumably , at school , and he 's always used a calculator since . |
| 16 | ‘ Our intention was always to purchase a CT scanner in our business plan this year and we have done a great deal of work , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Contented as she was with the house , Virginia was always to cast a glance over her shoulder at her sister , living just five miles away at Charleston . |
| 18 | She was always clutching a fistful of sweets or biting into a between-meals snack of bread and condensed milk or scraping out bowls in which Aunt Margaret had mixed cake . |
| 19 | Things were always crystal clear to Beamish ; he was always taking a view or spying out the land or finding some way of pointing out the difference between his world — a universe of sharp corners and exact distances — and the booming , foggy place in which Henry found himself every time he took off his glasses . |
| 20 | He was in Hollywood by 1915 in time to see Griffith at the height of his powers , and in a sense Vidor was always to remain a representative of the Griffith era ; he was to become Hollywood 's token Progressive in a period when the main energies of that phenomenon had been exhausted . |
| 21 | ‘ He was always carrying a casket , a battered , tattered thing which he guarded with his life . ’ |