Example sentences of "[pron] were always [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plastic ones now on sale in every garden centre are much more manageable than the old glass type , which were always getting broken . |
| 2 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 3 | But Floy was still sickened ; he remembered how on Renascia they had tried to follow what they had known of the Earth-people 's death rituals and how they had had the large , austere Firehouse with the ornate bronze lamps which were always kept burning in memory of those who had died . |
| 4 | There were a few couples whose friendship was of long standing and who were always seen about together . |
| 5 | Her mother had filled her early childhood with wonderful memories of picnics and riding ponies and of a stream of smiling schoolfriends who were always made welcome , but it was her father to whom she 'd felt closest . |
| 6 | As I have already noted , I have yet to meet children who were always getting their own way who were contented or calm . |
| 7 | The house was an ordeal for visiting children , who were always getting lost . |
| 8 | These girls were the ones who were always getting put in detention , never did any homework , smoked dope at 11 and started having sex at 14 — shoplifting was just another phase for them to go through . ’ |
| 9 | At least I 've never heard him and I do n't think Aunt Alicia ever did , but when she was a young girl , they had trouble with servants who were always getting worked up about him . |
| 10 | This was especially true of the Fire Service , our immediate neighbours , and it applied equally to those in the adjacent Gateshead Borough Police and Northumberland Constabulary , who were always talked of as being a lesser breed of mortals . |
| 11 | ‘ Nearly half of those interviewed said they did not trust retailers who were always cutting their prices , ’ said the report by retail analysts Verdict Research . |
| 12 | When he started writing , it was the fashion to pretend that they were happy shepherds and shepherdesses , who were always dancing , or anyhow had hearts of gold . |
| 13 | It is a picture of self-respecting and self-reliant people whose expectations were pitifully modest , who knew they could be worse off , who perhaps remembered times when they had been even poorer , but who were always haunted by the spectre of poverty ( as they understood the term ) . |
| 14 | So you were always , you were always faced with this er coming from the membership you know , that we were always like the cow 's tail you know , we 'll always be behind . |
| 15 | You were always getting into trouble then . " |
| 16 | You could drink some of that warm English beer you were always telling me was so good . ’ |
| 17 | They 've started recently , they d they did n't do it for years , we had n't been training anybody and that was unusual because when it was the big factory you were always bringing in the school leavers |
| 18 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 19 | What I mean is , you always think that you 're tomorrow 's man and yesterday 's child and then suddenly you realise that today is the tomorrow you were always looking forward to , if you see what I mean , and quite soon you 'll be yesterday 's man yourself . ’ |
| 20 | You were always learning then ? |
| 21 | The one pipe pumped it full , the other — you were always scared it stuck , some sort of ballcock worked the thing — splashed it out . |
| 22 | You were always suited for this . ’ |
| 23 | But you were always allowed home when the children were not at school . |
| 24 | In my day-dreams and nightmares you were always clothed in those washed-out jeans : I can still see their frayed , ravelled seams with their bleached , raggy threads softened by countless abrasions and grindings , the frazzled button-holes , the worn buttons showing the cheap metal underneath . |
| 25 | ‘ You were always doing that when you were little , ’ said Sam . |
| 26 | You were always offered a cup of tea . " |
| 27 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |
| 28 | We were always dressed alike , and though I was older by eighteen months , few people could remember who was who . |
| 29 | We were always taught This er comes back again . |
| 30 | 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 . |