Example sentences of "were [adv] always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely the English and French were nearly always at war in those days . ’ |
| 2 | The actual vaults were nearly always of concrete and it was the strength of Roman concrete which made it possible to cover the enormous spaces in this way . |
| 3 | It was nonchalant in its dealings with other cats , disdainfully ignoring the usual status battles , which were nearly always between males or between females — there was little social fighting across the genders . |
| 4 | In the evenings there was sometimes singing on deck to the accompaniment of a lute , and sorrowful music it was too , because the songs were nearly always about broken hearts , unrequited love , or dear ones lost at sea . |
| 5 | Tweed , the Liberal election agent , ‘ knew … that it was not illness or the tedium of a long convalescence which kept him out , but that his heart was not in it and that confronted with the serried ranks of vested interests which compose this new Government , his sympathies were as always with the bottom dogs … ' |
| 6 | Except in the Central Province , Europeans were almost always in a minority . |
| 7 | ‘ Our family did n't exactly come from the wrong side of the tracks , but we were certainly always within sound of the train whistles . ’ |