Example sentences of "and it [was/were] always [prep] " in BNC.

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1 His childhood exposure to life in the streets of a western town , still so new that most of the people who had founded it were still alive , had left him with no illusions about people or their motives , and it was always for the motive behind the question that he looked .
2 And it was always on that er tramcar , whichever er suburban district they were leaving , was always a packed car .
3 And it was always to , ye , you know , you ask a commercial artist what sort of lead time , that 's another , another er another word that you might come across , because again , you do n't want them to speak our jargon but we can speak there 's .
4 And it was always in autumn that this game was played because we had a sort of a plant that is very common then , we call it in Gaelic [ ragwort ] .
5 We used to catch a lot of fish and it was always in them days you used to catch the trout in the Summer and you used to dry them on the on the dykes and hang them on the line like you could see haddocks and that drying .
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