Example sentences of "there [was/were] always [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh they had good nights and there were always a crowd of boys there and they used to come in and pinch the . |
| 2 | There were always a number of children in the street . |
| 3 | At TWW , in Cardiff initially for me , there was always a song in the air and plenty of team spirit on the ground . |
| 4 | Everyone felt more alive when he was around : there 'd be so much fun and games and nonsense — and there was always a bit for everyone , do you know what I mean ? |
| 5 | It so happened that erm Tom tha who I was working with , see he was on Shift er Shift F and er there was always a bit of rivalry between the various shifts as er , as to erm , you know , who did the better job and all this sort of thing |
| 6 | CALLAHAN : But there was always a question of when and if . |
| 7 | And then there was always a cradle with a little one in you know in between I do n't how we lived honest I do n't . |
| 8 | But there was always a reserve about him . |
| 9 | I should perhaps add for completeness sake that it was urged upon your Lordships that there was always a possibility of a leak to the prosecuting authorities of incriminating information disclosed by the defendants as a result of complying with the order and use being made , innocently , by the prosecution of such information , which , ex hypothesi , they had not themselves acquired . |
| 10 | My parents were too poor to be able to give one another a birthday present each year , though there was always a present for each of us four children , Stanley , Laura , Edith and myself . |
| 11 | Whatever the explanation , for some of us there was always a sense of fear in this secluded spot and that moreover linked to a train . |
| 12 | On leaving the little station there was always a sense of freshness and freedom . |
| 13 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 14 | There was always a bottle of cough medicine in all the rooms , even outside in the shed and in a box buried in the vegetable patch . |
| 15 | In Kisling 's studio , where there was always a bottle or two open , Modigliani wrote on one of the preparatory pencil sketches that he made : ‘ I , the undersigned , author of the drawing , swear never to get drunk again for the duration of the war ’ . |
| 16 | After appel I collected some books from my locker — my locker was in a comer and there was always a pile of block rubbish in front of it so that it was a business to open and shut the door — and went out towards the library . |
| 17 | Maybe they did overdrink and so on and so forth , but nevertheless there was always a shelter . |
| 18 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |
| 19 | There was always a policeman on the . |
| 20 | There was always a harvest supper for the farm workers after all the hay and wheat had been cut . |
| 21 | There was always a telephone somewhere , on a desk or on a wall . |
| 22 | There was always a telephone . |
| 23 | But with typical Baxter arrogance there was always a twist . |
| 24 | There was always a way to beat bad weather blues and enjoy ourselves . |
| 25 | In either case , there was always a cheese ( just one , and that à point ) and , to finish , a tarte and cream . |
| 26 | You know like there was always a boy that er went round the village |
| 27 | Er , well there was always a problem er food-wise , because there was a scarcity , there was a sc an overall scarcity er of food . |
| 28 | At that time it was a tradition that when someone in a family died there was always a bow of black ribbon draped over the top of their photograph frame . |
| 29 | There was always a diversity of practice — as there still is — in religious attitudes , customs and modes of worship . |
| 30 | There was always a difficulty in obtaining enough currency , a major barrier to trading with the west . |