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DR. AUG. WESTERN. 
Whenever there is business being done at the 
House of Commons, some of the Clerks are pre- 
sent (Black & Wh. May 19, 94, 609, a). — They 
caused trouble only when they believed they 
were being defrauded (19th Cent. Oct. 93. 536). 
— His temper only failed him when he was 
beimg nursed. Which was some seventeen days 
in each month (Kipling, Plain Tales 96). — 
When Elise Delaunay . . . . was being scandalously 
handled by the talkers in her stuffy salon, Ma- 
dame Cervin sat silent (Ward, Grieve II, 233). 
10. Heller ikke bruges omskrivningen, når en handling 
eller tilstand i sin almindelighed skal udtrykkes, f. eks. The 
handsome English-looking club, which stands not far away (Black 
& Wh. Aug. 25, 94, 238, å). 
Derimod bruges den netop for at 
betegne det stedsevarende ved tilstanden eller handlingen i så- 
danne tilfælder, hvor man enten ikke skulde vente, at den var 
stedsevarende, eller hvor dette ialfald ikke er selvsagt. 
Men 
der må da altid tilføies et adverbium som always eller for ever, 
f. eks.: 
The quartz sheddings which wind and weather 
are for ever teasing out of the grit (Ward, Grieve 
I, 94). — She ista saint, she is. She's ahvays 
going to church; she's always doing things for 
poor people (ib. I, 242). — Infinitiv: I can't be 
always putting myself forward to help you meet 
him (ib. I, 298). — I remember his wife å great 
many years ago, when she was always having 
children (Mrs. Oliphant, The Orphans, London, 
1865, s. 10). — At this stage of youth he was con- 
stantly falling out with and resenting his own 
faculty of pity (Ward, Grieve I, 126). — She 
was, as it were, always watching him with å sort 
of secret discontent (ib. I, 114). — The great 
swing-door into the street vas for ever opening 
