Example sentences of "were always [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A. M. ‘ Bucks ’ were always chased when a policeman came along . |
| 2 | There were repeated charges from Kendo , and the number-two male , Macho , but they were always chased off by Ulysse , Brutus , and sometimes even Ondine , while the rest of the feeding party lent their support with aggressive barks . |
| 3 | Defeats were always caused by the plot : The Plot , the mo'amera , the complot , undefinable and ubiquitous , a conspiracy of treachery in which a foreign hand — Syrian , Palestinian , Israeli , American , French , Libyan , Iranian — was always involved . |
| 4 | Except for a few stereotyped responses from the wilder churches — Pastor David Powell of the Rotherham Pentecostal Church actually banned gays from his services — and a few jibes from the local National Front , we were always treated politely , listened to with interest and generally well received . |
| 5 | Married women were always treated as a class apart for insurance purposes and in 1932 they found their health insurance benefits cut because of the high risk they represented , even though no other group with excessive claims ( for example miners ) was singled out for similar treatment . |
| 6 | Well I suppose it because , as I told you , those four routes were always treated as a separate entity because they were on , there were possible chances of marrying those routes together to get them to run the most economical way . |
| 7 | We were always assigned a prescribed pattern to follow after take-off . |
| 8 | The eggs were always obtained from Ashfords Farm at Milford and never failed to produce chicks . |
| 9 | To minimize the effects of bleaching , only one absorption spectrum was usually obtained from a given cell , but two independent estimates of the baseline absorbance spectrum were always obtained by arranging both beams to pass outside the cell . |
| 10 | The head of a local network in the Northern Band , Rajaruwo , literally , ‘ King ’ , was related to a middle-level headman in a region where such appointments were always limited to the respectable and wealthy . |
| 11 | My brothers were always called ‘ fine , handsome boys ’ while ‘ the little girl is nice ’ . |
| 12 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |
| 13 | We were always taught This er comes back again . |
| 14 | condolences and they would people were always asked if they wanted to see the remains . |
| 15 | The women 's meals were always served in the home of Sheikha Grandmother whether that home was a tent , an areesh , a bungalow , or , as it eventually proved , a palace . |
| 16 | The implications of the project for the INSET of teachers in county schools were always acknowledged as of considerable importance . |
| 17 | These were always printed on paper of a lurid colour — a different colour for each song — and illustrated with crude drawings of the events described . |
| 18 | He invested in oil companies , thanks to his buddies , and his investments were always covered ; at his death , there were rumours of secret investment accounts . |
| 19 | They were always covered . |
| 20 | These were not of the best quality ; lighting in the first instance was oil , then gas , but on the introduction of electrically lit stock , the batteries were always run down or low in the winter , and described by one wag , a regular user of the service , as reminiscent of ‘ a red hot hairpit ’ . |
| 21 | Kapil Dev has , naturally enough , had to do much of his bowling in India , a country whose pitches were always reckoned to be a graveyard for fast bowlers . |
| 22 | Her brothers ' shirts and collars were always starched and ironed to perfection . |
| 23 | For instance , on cinema nights we were always assured of good seats as one of his armourers was regularly on the door collecting tickets , and he made sure we had a good view . |
| 24 | To me , the content was so uninteresting that I stopped opening the cover , so that the numerous approaches offering me overpriced advertising space were always rejected . |
| 25 | Therefore , while there was support for hunger marches and the General Strike , there was nearly always an emphasis placed upon the constitutional nature of such conflict and , in any case , the working-class interests were always operated through the trade unions to the Labour Party , which emphasized its acceptance of parliamentary politics . |
| 26 | There were a few couples whose friendship was of long standing and who were always seen about together . |
| 27 | Since the brother and sister were always invited together , they were dubbed ‘ V and A' , and the appellation headed many a hostess 's guest list for the boisterous informal balls organised during the summer . |
| 28 | My parents were always invited , and when we were old enough , we went too . |
| 29 | Lots of titled guests were always invited and once , in my mother 's time as cook , princess Mary came to dinner . |
| 30 | Difficulties were always tempered by contact with people . |