Example sentences of "were always [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dealers ' young girlfriends were always impressed by a visit to Hard Rock Cafe . |
| 2 | Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter . |
| 3 | MPs were usually made to feel welcome ; they were always good for a comment ( ‘ Outrageous , ’ says senior Tory MP ) , or a piece of gossip . |
| 4 | Digital workers were always good for a car loan or a mortgage , perceived as being in secure , well-paid jobs . |
| 5 | The Romans were always good at finding a sheltered and beautiful site and it was they who first settled here . |
| 6 | ‘ You were always good at them . |
| 7 | There were always hundreds of students asking their foreign teachers for this ‘ favour ’ to get them over the first hurdle of the going abroad process . |
| 8 | We had wonderful and devoted parents and were always sure of a safe , secure background and were aware that we children mattered more to them than anything else . |
| 9 | How would the caring services react if we knew that our performance was being evaluated by the people we were serving , and if disabled people were always involved in deciding : which issues they felt were most important ; how the money should be spent ; and who they wanted to employ to support them to get the job done . |
| 10 | He and his children were always grateful to ‘ Nat ’ ( whose successor as Principal was Dr Marsh ) for many kindnesses over the years . |
| 11 | He and his children were always grateful to ‘ Nat ’ ( whose successor as Principal was Dr Marsh ) for many kindnesses over the years . |
| 12 | Political and cultural questions of representation were always implicit in the older conception of ‘ the black struggle ’ . |
| 13 | Little had changed , and the school conditions and the opportunities for working-class children to do well were always subject to environmental limitation . |
| 14 | CCO was responsible for obtaining final approval of the force commander 's plan from the Chiefs of Staff Committee of which he was a member , and the plans were always subject to the naval Commander-in-Chief 's blessing for no major dispositions of ships were made without his say-so . |
| 15 | There was always there were always adverse against the management . |
| 16 | She was a dark , tinker-looking woman who talked in a wheedling , laughing , low-pitched whine ; her hands were always black with earth from dealing with potatoes . |
| 17 | When a small boy , I felt sorry for their horses , which were always black in colour , so that they could be put to use for funerals . |
| 18 | You were always better at everything . |
| 19 | The stories , to my mind were always better in Bunty than in other comics , and this is probably why it has continued without merger , where others have failed . |
| 20 | Besides their attendances at fires and competitions the Halling Brigade gave many exhibitions of their fire fighting skills , and were always prominent in local functions . |
| 21 | QPR manager Gerry Francis will be looking for consistency and said : ‘ Rangers were always capable of beating the teams at the top one week and losing to the bottom side the next . |
| 22 | The barons were always keen for a bit of booty , so our invasion of France was fully supported . ’ |
| 23 | Further analysis according to the treatment administered indicated that the mean fundic argyrophil cell densities were always higher in MEN 1 than in sporadic type Zollinger-Ellison sydrome patients , whatever the treatment , but the difference was never significant ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 24 | The system also perpetuated the concept of the code of honour , in which the strong defended the weak against oppressors , and the highest rulers were always benevolent towards their vassals . |
| 25 | I thought that people were always disappointed in their old friends ' children , seeing them as diluted , distorted versions of their parents , not nearly as much fun and full of peculiar new ideas . |
| 26 | Definitions were always crucial in this debate , and the Church of England Board for Social Responsibility in its submission to Williams made a useful contribution to clarifying the distinctions between terms like eroticism , pornography , and obscenity : |
| 27 | They were always legal in the police force . |
| 28 | When chasing the game we were always succeptable to the counter attack and conceded 2 goals on the break , whilst the other was another mistake . |
| 29 | ‘ You were always strange about your mother , lovey , even as a little lass . |
| 30 | I belonged to that great multitude who could n't help liking Dick Crossman : he and I were always nice to one another , right to the day in 1974 shortly before his death when he came to the Birmingham Bull Ring in acute physical discomfort to hear me advise my fellow-electors to vote Labour if they wanted out of the Common Market . |