Example sentences of "[pers pn] always was [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I was surprised , as I always was at such moments , how slim and small she felt .
2 She was chalk white , as she always was at emotional moments , but her eyes were blazing .
3 Meg looked about her , delighted , as she always was by this .
4 They always was above us .
5 Harry trailed along behind Ockleton , bemused as he always was by beeswaxed pews and glittering plate in what experience had taught him was an irreligious world .
6 Her father was where he always was in the afternoons of mid-winter .
7 Presumably this was important to him ( it always was to me and I can fully understand this ) for he wrote the route up in the new routes books asking how others would feel if he subsequently went back and placed a single bolt runner to protect the route .
8 As I heard more stories about the measuring rod , not just from Alec but from other boys as well , I began to realise that it would be as big a problem for me as it always was for Alec .
9 The door to the conservatory veered at her , half-open as it always was by night .
10 But it always was in the the barns to begin with .
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