Example sentences of "always [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Descending broken rock requires a nimble style , with the emphasis on sure footwork and the hands always placed for balance and as security in the event of a slip . |
2 | Although arbitrary , this size limit can be related to the idea of morphological capacity since craters below this size are normally a constructional component of strato-volcanoes , whereas those above are nearly always formed by subsidence and collapse following catastrophic eruptions . |
3 | That idea is that sovereignty is something to be guarded , preserved and held in splendid isolation , the idea that we must always think of sovereignty as something that we are required to hand over , required to lose , to surrender or to sacrifice — conceding , in the words of my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley , powers demanded by the Community . |
4 | to me , electric , the plus always goes to plus and the minus to minus , you ca n't mix them up . |
5 | ‘ He always goes to sleep when he 's enjoying something . |
6 | They had always relied on speed and skill in horsemanship , which enabled them to dash in upon their adversaries , fire off a salvo from their short but deadly bows , and then retreat before any reprisal . |
7 | Traditionally the chain has always relied on hardware and ironmongery sales . |
8 | In countries where the political history or the voting system produces a myriad of parties , these are nearly always grouped into government and opposition . |
9 | One has always to bear in mind that for very many people in early-modern England — in the towns as much as in the countryside — the home was also the place of work . |
10 | A horrible series of futile uprisings against impossible odds and always ending in butchery and defeat for the rebels . |
11 | Despite this , they always appear in print as extraordinary adventures in a romantic , far-off , sun-kissed land . |
12 | They regarded themselves , however fallaciously , as light-skinned ; in their paintings they were invariably shown full face and almost white , whereas their enemies were always depicted in profile and black , unless they were Europeans . |
13 | I 've always suffered with claustrophobia and swimming in a dark enclosed space has done nothing to improve it . |
14 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
15 | There are , however , cases which suggest that the Christian communities who were potential victims of the system did not always look upon devşirme as being wholly evil . |
16 | I did n't know Basil very much but I shall always remember with joy and gratitude that painting course at Grantly Hall — what fun it was . |
17 | At first she was n't so keen , always complaining of tiredness or soreness or emotional unease ; but these days , as Odilo says again and again to all his friends ( and the compliment , I think , is pitched decorously high ) , she bangs like a shithouse door in a gale . |
18 | It was a boarding-house where foreigners and theatrical folk lived in upstairs rooms and the kitchens always smelt of stew and roasting meat , currant buns and freshly baked bread . |
19 | I know , but I always talk about telly or Madonna . |
20 | And so Harrison of Caldbeck and Robinson of Buttermere — wrestlers were always known by name and village both — were circling about each other 's conversation trying for a grip . |
21 | the American stuff but when you 're arrested you are always arrested on suspicion because in this country you are innocent until a cou a court proves you 're i er guilty , yeah ? |
22 | Yet , their frame of mind was always streaked with anxiety that caused them both to be forever on the watch . |
23 | Echoing this anxiety over the future of democracy at the end of the First World War , another government inspector wrote of the need to keep working-class youth ‘ in touch with ‘ the forces of civilisation ’ , for it was necessary always to keep in mind that ‘ we are training a whole social class ’ . |
24 | I was always greeted with warmth and affection . |
25 | They were sitting opposite each other in their usual places at the rectangular dinner table Katherine always set with tablecloth and candles and fresh flowers . |
26 | But this front-runner has always battled with gameness and gets plenty of weight from Midnight Madness , a previous winner of this race . |
27 | Do they always pay on time or are they like everyone else ? |
28 | It is , as Lord Renton pointed out in an address to this Society in 1990 , too much to ask that legislation should always be expressed simply ; for the complexities of modern life do not always admit of simplicity and we can not afford , in providing a code of conduct , to sacrifice certainty to simplicity . |
29 | Walker always looked at home until his move to Italy sapped his self-belief and left the normally swift-heeled defender looking as if he had feet of clay . |
30 | Moreover they nearly always end in tragedy because the protagonists reach out in some way fur the unattainable . |