Example sentences of "it [was/were] always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn ; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , not from whim or temper , but with authority . |
| 2 | In future , it was always to be the same . |
| 3 | On the other hand when the Goigama made money payments in return for services or labour it was always to people who were right outside the system such as shopkeepers or Tamil labourers hired on a casual basis . |
| 4 | That 's what the country was it was always to be remembered feat a giant killing match of all time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was always with a sense of relief that Carolyn escaped to the greenhouse to water her seedlings . |
| 7 | He did n't lose his temper very often , but when he did it was always with Gesner , and it was dramatic . |
| 8 | He and Chris Grant , on The Thinker , jumped the last together , but it was always on the cards that McCourt would have the upper hand . |
| 9 | I had peripherally helped out at anti-apartheid offices , even gone on CND Easter Marches when I first came over , but it was always on the sidelines . |
| 10 | At first he wore the crown he had found only occasionally , but later it was always on his scarred green skull and he became increasingly silent and brooding . |
| 11 | In October 1978 , Sid Vicious — whom Malcolm McLaren had described as ‘ never seeing a green light ; it was always on red ’ — woke up in his room in the Chelsea Hotel , New York , to find the body of his girlfriend , Nancy Spungen , sprawled on the bathroom floor , dead from multiple knife wounds . |
| 12 | It was always on show , but it was seldom used . |
| 13 | And it was always on that er tramcar , whichever er suburban district they were leaving , was always a packed car . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ it was always on the cards . |
| 15 | Ooh it was always on the road ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was always for two million lire . ’ |
| 18 | If it ever did , it was always as a part which was apart , separate , a ‘ precious stone set in the silver sea . |
| 19 | But it was always as a unity that Ramsay approached a composition . |
| 20 | Well , it was always worth looking at who put up the route up . |
| 21 | But it was always worth putting a scare into people . |
| 22 | 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 ] . |
| 23 | It was always in motion , in waves and pulses , moving from west to east in the atmosphere . |
| 24 | There was no extemporisation ; it was always in the same format . |
| 25 | While a few Labour MPs mentioned the born-or-bred question ( Chris Smith , Ken Livingstone ) , it was always in relation to whether one can — and therefore whether Labour authorities could — ‘ promote ’ homosexuality . |
| 26 | For the rest of the time they were there money did not exactly overshadow them but the pressing need for it was always there , it was always in their minds . |
| 27 | It was always in your contract . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was always in the back of my mind . |
| 30 | It was always by accident I 'd come upon him with others and watch him converse with people I 'd known nearly all my life , lighting them with his interest , vignettes in which I played no part . |