Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [is] always [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 11 Do n't allow yourself to be dominated by the student who always knows , or thinks he knows , the answer or who is always asking you questions or giving his opinion on the state of the world . |
| 2 | The problem with being an astrologer is that everyone is always pestering you to find out what 's to happen in the next few days . |
| 3 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 4 | She is back in the house that she is always remembering and talking endlessly about , she has her precious Miss Cress . |
| 5 | What happens when the unconscious child in Joan Halton finds yet again that she is always losing out , this time to her husband , to his old car on which he dotes or to his mother who is still demanding so much of his time and attention , and that he appears to be forgetting that he is now married and has new first loyalties ? |
| 6 | Ah erm and her loyalty to the company , so she 's always saying |
| 7 | I 'm hopeful with the royal family getting so involved in lobbies and British charities which do lobby , and for instance the anti-smoking lobby , where there 's somebody that 's supporting that there 's always going to be somebody who 's opposing that . |
| 8 | It is a big , square box , painted dirty white , and , although he is always knocking through , extending , repapering and spring-cleaning , there is something dead about the place . |
| 9 | Because of his working hours he is not giving as much time as he ought perhaps to his family , although he 's always tried to ensure that weekends are devoted to his children . |
| 10 | For the purposes of analysing intonation , a unit generally greater in size than the syllable is needed , and this unit is called the tone-unit ; in its smallest form the tone-unit may consist of only one syllable , so it would in fact be wrong to say that it is always composed of more than one syllable . |
| 11 | The title of Chapter 3 , ‘ The politics of variation ’ , was intended to underscore the central point about sex difference research : that it is always undertaken for political reasons , and has traditionally been used to justify sex discrimination and exclusionary practices , making them seem natural and inevitable . |
| 12 | He says that he 's always wanted to work as an artist at Slimbridge — it 's a lifetimes dream come true . |
| 13 | Everything focuses on the fact that he is always struggling with his desire for love and power as well as for an end to all his problems . |
| 14 | More important , the range almost exactly bisects the Atlantic Ocean from north to south following closely the profile of the African and South American coasts , so it 's always called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . |
| 15 | I get pigeon-holed as the vulnerable bloke who 's crap at relationships and who 's always arguing with his dad . |
| 16 | she say that , and she say that and she 's always writing your name over the books and everything , okay , oh yeah , you must ask him if he fancies me and love him and ask him why he do n't he phone me that often , ask him that , you must say , right yeah , but do n't tell him that I told you to ask him , yeah |
| 17 | She lost the first two babies , you know that , and she 's always done her best for you . |
| 18 | He drives fast and she 's always liked speed . |
| 19 | ‘ And she 's always liked you . ’ |
| 20 | . And she gets , and she 's always getting new clothes and new shoes . |
| 21 | And she 's always dancing , or singing , or laughing . ’ |
| 22 | When I do go to sleep , I see Geraldine 's face , and she 's always crying … ’ |
| 23 | Gold hoops which rattle when she runs , and she 's always running somewhere . |
| 24 | Erm , as I say , she 's like , she 's very democratic , and she 's always asking them what they felt how , how they felt they should tackle it , I mean They had n't decided what the message should be |
| 25 | My sister makes lots of preserves and she 's always giving me some . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Natasha started dancing at three and she 's always longed for her lessons . |
| 27 | yeah , they 'll be , and she 's always moaning driving Sue up the wall , why should I keep him blah , blah , blah , blah , doing nothing , we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you 're twenty years old , not forty , she 'd been bad on and off again , throat , well she had the shoulder , throat er she thought she had , oh the diabetes was one were n't it , diabetes one , they thought she had , thought that she had glandular fever but she has n't and er , so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am , Sue said well I du n no she never seems to be , cos she 's never been well has she really ? |
| 28 | Effectively therefore she can neither walk nor talk and she is always going to need twenty four hour care for the rest of her life . |
| 29 | No she does to you though cos she 's always going on about other people talking about other people . |
| 30 | But , like Geraldine 's two-faced cos she 's always giving it like erm , to other people , I do n't like Lucy , the one she hangs about with , I only hang about with her cos I feel sorry for her . |