Example sentences of "it [was/were] always on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was always on show , but it was seldom used . |
| 6 | And it was always on that er tramcar , whichever er suburban district they were leaving , was always a packed car . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ it was always on the cards . |
| 8 | Ooh it was always on the road ! |