Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have always [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
2 | During the Christmas and Easter holidays for as long as I can remember , I 've been going to assorted relatives and friends , but in the long , summer months I 've always gone home . |
3 | But still , the great majority of posts are held by the sort of steady chaps who have always made up the Great and Good . |
4 | From girlhood she had always risen early . |
5 | Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice . |
6 | In the past I 've always stayed here at Lomond View , and that 's precisely what I intend to carry on doing ! ’ |
7 | As for that other one , which was how he now alluded to the daughter he had always doted on , she was in her room and there she would stay until she saw sense . |
8 | Sir John Cuckney 's career has embraced a fascinating mix of public- and private-sector service , a combination he has always found very appealing . |
9 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
10 | They have given many parties in their time , but on New Year 's Eve they have always gone out to the gatherings of others — sometimes to several gatherings in the course of the evening , and some years separately , not always meeting even for the magic chimes . |
11 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
12 | Every time you 've done the chip-pan fire I 've always missed out . |
13 | Elaine a retired civil servant who had worked all her life , felt she made a mistake in retiring at the same time as her friend Louise who had always opted out of the cooking and cleaning in favour of gardening and doing the decorating . |