Example sentences of "[conj] she [is] always [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | She is back in the house that she is always remembering and talking endlessly about , she has her precious Miss Cress . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Ah erm and her loyalty to the company , so she 's always saying |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | She lost the first two babies , you know that , and she 's always done her best for you . |
| 7 | He drives fast and she 's always liked speed . |
| 8 | ‘ And she 's always liked you . ’ |
| 9 | . And she gets , and she 's always getting new clothes and new shoes . |
| 10 | And she 's always dancing , or singing , or laughing . ’ |
| 11 | When I do go to sleep , I see Geraldine 's face , and she 's always crying … ’ |
| 12 | Gold hoops which rattle when she runs , and she 's always running somewhere . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | My sister makes lots of preserves and she 's always giving me some . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Natasha started dancing at three and she 's always longed for her lessons . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No she does to you though cos she 's always going on about other people talking about other people . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Nobody likes a child who is allowed to do whatever she likes , but then again no child is happy if she is always prevented from exploring . |
| 21 | But she 's always said , I believe this , I shall act like this . |
| 22 | and then last year we did Peter Pan and I said right I 'm leaving but she 's always wanted |
| 23 | Michelle added : ‘ She looked a bit of a sight when I got to the station but she 's always trying on my clothes . |
| 24 | yeah , but she 's always arguing with everybody oh right , thank you |
| 25 | I think Bryony likes erm Smarties because she 's always sucking the juice out of beans . |
| 26 | Well , I thought nothing of it , because she 's always palled up with a lot of English chaps since she was up at St Andrews and there was the odd Michael among them . |
| 27 | I suppose Mum should know , as she 's always saying it only seems like yesterday that she was young . |
| 28 | And if her husband comes back , as he is apparently hinting he might , or if she moves , or gets a job , as she is always threatening to do if he does n't , or if my colleagues in the DSS find out that I am paying her , then even this hopeless arrangement will come to an end and I shall be back to the agencies and the advertisements , back to the interviews and the references , back to strangers in the house . |
| 29 | Her Frenchness , and whiteness , seem very much under threat as she is always surrounded by Africans , and Africa . |