Example sentences of "he was always [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was always watering his ale , and so many of the villages believe his body should be buried in water . |
| 2 | ‘ He was always moving the goalposts so that we could never anticipate what he wanted . ’ |
| 3 | Oh I was very , I have n't seen him for a while , being ill you do n't , but er , he was always sending messages of good will when I was in hospital . |
| 4 | He shrugged , he was always shrugging . |
| 5 | Now this was a line from a film , and he was always using it . |
| 6 | He was always looking for the catch . |
| 7 | He was always looking . |
| 8 | He was always looking for the beginning of something , and he had the energy of someone starting their career . |
| 9 | Ted was a natural , so unless he managed to find a right-hander to take him through the Backdoor , he was always looking over his shoulder . |
| 10 | He was always looking for work , ’ one said . |
| 11 | The boy had seen because he was always looking to see what people were doing . |
| 12 | But he was always looking for something extra off the ice too , through dare-devil exploits like deep sea diving and motor racing . |
| 13 | He was always looking at his private parts . |
| 14 | He was always looking at his watch and saying he 'd have to go and — ’ |
| 15 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 16 | Another problem was his feathers : he was n't growing down quickly enough and he was always shivering , so Maureen made him a little coat out of cotton wool . |
| 17 | He was always learning . |
| 18 | He was always confusing the class with his exclamations . |
| 19 | He was always screaming about how they dumped on him . |
| 20 | He was young and madly enthusiastic for all things meteorological , with the exception of the teleprinter which he was always messing up , getting the paper stuck and so on , and leaving us to sort it out when we came on duty . |
| 21 | He was always searching , rummaging : Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus . |
| 22 | Not only was Marx willing to accept that historical development might have followed several different lines in different places but it also shows that he was always revising his ideas . |
| 23 | He was always flying to Canberra , stirring it up , trying to create problems for the stations in the north-west . ’ |
| 24 | He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week . |
| 25 | ‘ He was always acting the goat , that 's why I got to know him . |
| 26 | ‘ He was always acting flash , wearing white leather suits and drinking champagne . |
| 27 | Nicky 's parents found him impossible to look after : he was always picking fights , especially with smaller children ; he had a fight with his teacher at school and ran away from home five times in two years . |
| 28 | He was always progressing , money-wise . |
| 29 | He was always trying . |
| 30 | Here , there was a boy there who was n't 'alf a saucebox , he was always trying to get a look at me legs and drawers — ’ |