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 .
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