Example sentences of "always [verb] on the " in BNC.

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1 Prep schools have no secure catchment area , they have always depended on the forces of the market place for their survival .
2 Their way of life has always depended on the snow , the weather , the clouds and the human strength and frailties of their clients .
3 ‘ I have always depended on the kindness of strangers ’ , says Blanche DuBois in Streetcar .
4 My small table and chair were always placed on the dinner table near her left elbow , and Glumdalclitch stood near me , in case I needed her help .
5 When these suffixes are attached to single-syllable stems , the stress is almost always placed on the stem .
6 He always sits on the floor in front of me .
7 Then today , when I was by the nail ( he always sits on the steps up ) , I said ( I did it on purpose ) run and get me a cigarette .
8 Iris always sits on the floor and I 've got into the habit . ’
9 Apart from the support ( for which we were most grateful ) of one or two companies and several individuals , it has always fallen on the team pilots to get Great Britain to the World/European Championships .
10 I have always relied on the kindness of my friends .
11 Jonadab always relied on the leaves for treating any horse which developed an infection or chill in the bladder .
12 Instead it plays with the ‘ death of reading ’ , for novels have always relied on the reader to bring them to life .
13 ‘ I was coming home with three lovely black horses which we always used on the road ; and I used to glory in trimming them up , because they wore the worsted — red , white and blue — and they used to look lovely .
14 I went this year , during the town 's autumn festival , which always starts on the last Friday of August and lasts for 10 days .
15 Always looks on the dark side .
16 And why is it that people always knock on the door when we 're in the bath ?
17 and I just do n't want to move out of being a student because I find that , that more and more problems are , you know I 'm coming up with because , like Melanie saying there is problems with child care , there is erm positive discrimination against women , and we are always discriminated on the sexual harassment in the college is unbelievable and we have to campaign against this and that 's what 's gon na keep me being a student .
18 This is not , in fact , a single theory but an approach which sees racism on the outside of social and political life — sometimes the unwanted blemish is the neo-fascists , sometimes it is immigration laws , other times it is the absence of equal opportunities — yet racism is always located on the surface of other things .
19 And it 's always parked on the footpath .
20 To make the clock always appear on the surface , tick the ‘ Always on top ’ option in the control bar
21 Previous attempts to do this had always foundered on the fact that the fun usually resulted pretty soon in procreation but at this very time field trials of the contraceptive pill were taking place which would soon make the division practical and permanent for the first time in history .
22 ‘ For 30 years I always painted on the spot , even in deep snow .
23 Barbara 's advice : ‘ Colour always depends on the clothes and the occasion .
24 Although the form of English pronouns reflects their number and gender , it almost always depends on the semantic number and gender of what they refer to , rather than to any linguistic property of the names of their referents .
25 Of course these are generalisations and actual placement always depends on the individual .
26 The analysis of this section culminating in equations ( 10.28 ) — ( 10.39 ) establishes that the magnitude of the effect of feedback always depends on the appropriate loop gain .
27 Altman has always operated on the margins of the industry .
28 Although Mr X was a director of the ‘ bank ’ , his defence was that he acted in good faith ; indeed , said the defence , such was his faith in the word of his associates that he had invested , and lost , his own money in the venture , always acting on the advice of his colleagues ' , without ever questioning it .
29 ‘ When walking with a lady always walk on the outside of the pavement . ’
30 The date must always appear on the title page , where the month and year are usually sufficient .
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