Example sentences of "[pron] have always [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave : I 'd always tended to shy away from them , like , because like I say I think it 's the fear of the unknown , what you 've been told . |
| 2 | I had always longed to get back to Abyssinia . |
| 3 | Prague — I 've always wanted to go there . |
| 4 | I 've always wanted to get as stoned as quickly as possible to enjoy the evening at the end of a working day . |
| 5 | I 've always had to work very hard but at the end of the day I 'm , I 'm self-satisfied because I 'm I 'm doing what I want to do . |
| 6 | I 've always tried to keep too clear of foreign riders as you well know , but erm there are n't the riders around that you can slip in erm of the sort that we would want to put in . |
| 7 | I 've always tried to play as intensely as I can . |
| 8 | Leading me where I have always wanted to go yet never known how . |
| 9 | She wrote to Jane at the start of her employment : ‘ There are two things I beg you to do : get your time each day in the fresh air and strictly limit the hours you spend on your work , which I have always had to do anyway with such a large family and it does make sense in the end . |
| 10 | I do n't have faith because I have always refused to hand over my reason . |
| 11 | Even at the club level I have always tried to bring in people from lower divisions because , sooner or later , the people playing low down will get higher up — some , not all of them . |
| 12 | This had been a central theme of Left propaganda , appealing to a movement which had always tended to think dichotomously . |
| 13 | Still , you 've always wanted to go back , and I dare say you can demand the earth in salary . ’ |
| 14 | If you 've always wanted to learn seriously , your Clubrep can arrange a course of lessons at a discount . |
| 15 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |
| 16 | You 've always tried to make out that I was wrong and you were right . |
| 17 | She had always longed to go abroad . |
| 18 | Perhaps you have always wanted to go up in a hot air balloon , appear on stage in a local amateur production or jump from a higher board at the swimming pool — well , how about it ? |
| 19 | We are some way yet from Autumn but that is no reason not to consider the way we can change colours on the needlebed to use up left over yarn or simply make a splash with colours we 've always wanted to knit together . |
| 20 | So we 've always got to find somewhere to eat that 's |
| 21 | When Ma died , he had always planned to break away completely , give up this life and build a new one . |
| 22 | But he had always chosen to stand back ; to be busy . |
| 23 | Oh why is it every time I sit somewhere he 's always got to sit somewhere near me . |