Example sentences of "were always [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were always thinking of things to do with me . |
| 2 | For example , one sage quoted by Bodine railed against the custom of saying that X and Y were married , or worse , that Mr X was married to Miss Y. Propriety would be better served , he pointed out , if this fact were always expressed in terms of the woman being married to the man , since it is the woman who is passed from father to husband and loses her identity . |
| 3 | In terrible conditions underfoot and with a raging rainstorm Palace held out under terrific Wednesday pressure ( their sides of those days were always packed with internationals ) and won with a goal scored just before half-time . |
| 4 | In such discussions Zuwaya generally assumed that they had given offence unwittingly , and that malign actions were always done by others , requiring Zuwaya to pursue justice . |
| 5 | These binges were always followed by feelings of guilt and depression . |
| 6 | By studying a series of successively younger embryos he found that the same cells at the tip of the limbs always contacted the central nervous system first , and that subsequent connections were always made along pathways established by the axon processes extended by these pioneer cells . |
| 7 | Sometimes he would eye young women in the street , but they were always accompanied by maids or chaperones . |
| 8 | Until that time the Royal Academy of Arts , which was founded in 1768 , was the only body in England with a substantial representation of architects among its membership , although they were always out-numbered by painters and sculptors . |
| 9 | In Victorian times children were always taken to funerals but nowadays most people would not feel it was appropriate . |
| 10 | No single attainment test is administered to all schools , and GCE and CSE examinations were always dogged by problems of comparability . |
| 11 | Unsurprisingly , as girls were always portrayed as sweethearts , and as future wives and mothers , Russell could write : |
| 12 | My impatience and intolerance were always directed against things outside the company and Laura knew that . |
| 13 | I thought it was a big world , for we were always going to conventions and special meetings where , so it seemed then , there were thousands of others like myself . |