Example sentences of "who [was/were] always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few couples whose friendship was of long standing and who were always seen about together . |
| 2 | This was especially true of the Fire Service , our immediate neighbours , and it applied equally to those in the adjacent Gateshead Borough Police and Northumberland Constabulary , who were always talked of as being a lesser breed of mortals . |
| 3 | It is a picture of self-respecting and self-reliant people whose expectations were pitifully modest , who knew they could be worse off , who perhaps remembered times when they had been even poorer , but who were always haunted by the spectre of poverty ( as they understood the term ) . |
| 4 | And the youngest was Phyllis , who was always trying to be good . |
| 5 | ‘ Chapman was essentially a designer , an artist , who was always looking for the next design , something different , ’ says Mr Nearn . |
| 6 | She was housekeeper to a nano , a dwarf , called Appio who was always dressed in a suit with baggy trousers which made his rather stout figure look even broader . |
| 7 | His dad who was always popping in asking if anyone wanted to come down the pub — he was always off to the pub — also wrote the lyrics to our first song , ‘ Scarface ’ They were truly horrendous : ‘ Scarface , scarface , scarred from ear to ear , Scarface , the girls do n't even care . |
| 8 | Then it was Kylie who was always introduced as Dannii 's sister . |
| 9 | Or there was the antique shop in Beaumont Street , only one flummoxed woman who was always shutting for ‘ ten minutes ’ . |
| 10 | He said the ‘ fittest ’ patient in the intensive care ward was the one who was always chosen for the ambulance ride . |
| 11 | ‘ One of the daughters , Fiona , who was always known as ‘ the pretty one ’ , had struck up a great friendship with Mama , who had been invited back to Scotland . |
| 12 | There were the two eldest girls , Dorothy and Joyce , their four boys , Beverley , Walter , Robert and Bramwell , and another girl Elizabeth , who was always known as Betty . |
| 13 | Anderson , who was always accompanied by an umbrella and a bag bulging with papers and letters , gave an impression of philosophical detachment . |