Example sentences of "[pron] always [verb] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always had to be polite and caring . ’ |
| 2 | I always try to be nice to the kids . |
| 3 | I always like to be well-dressed . |
| 4 | I thank my hon. Friend ; I always like to be fair to Ministers . |
| 5 | It 's hard to tell , cos I always seemed to be awake , but then I remember waking up with a jump when this voice comes over the loud speaker . |
| 6 | ‘ I was not the great campaigning journalist , but I always wanted to be able to give facts , be they favourable or unfavourable to the authorities . ’ |
| 7 | I have long , naturally curly hair which always seems to be dry and often goes frizzy . |
| 8 | Your current occupancy rate is 50 per cent and you have a restaurant for 60 which always appears to be empty . |
| 9 | Josh was still bewildered by the sudden change in living standard from California sun and the constant care of cheerful Kathy ( now working for another family in nearby Markham Square ) to the stuffy flat in Pimlico where his babysitter , Mrs Gooden , a retired cook , watched over Josh and her other six little charges , one of whom always seemed to be bare-bottomed and on the potty . |
| 10 | and this Molly she always had to be different |
| 11 | David said in an interview : ‘ She always wanted to be famous , always saying ‘ I want to be a star ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Would you always have to be close to the thing you were pushing ? ’ |
| 13 | And these because you always wanted to be able to adapt rooms for different purposes and this folded back against the wall . |
| 14 | Do you always seem to be shifting things along on your worktops in order to make room to prepare something ? |
| 15 | I remember some other kids , a girls ' dorm , green-painted walls with a red border half-way up , a stiff roller-towel next to a wash-hand-basin , the scent of carbolic soap , hugs from a kind , laughing lady with large arms and the comforting smell of B.O. , and a small , quiet , wiry man who always seemed to be sweeping and winking . |
| 16 | Pond snail in monteray pine David Morgan ( or Ned ) is one of the rate sorts of person who always appears to be happy and cheerful , making him the natural leader of the Devon branch of the British Woodcarvers Association . |
| 17 | This principal asserts that if a knows that p and that p implies q , a also knows that q ; we always know to be true any propositions we know to be the consequences of a proposition we know . |
| 18 | ‘ We always had to be aware where their main dangers were coming from and defensively we did that . |
| 19 | ‘ We always try to be cash-positive , ’ chief executive Jane Tozer says . |
| 20 | . We always seemed to be lucky in that way . ’ |
| 21 | We always have to be aware of the kinetics of weathering reactions when looking at the mineralogical composition of weathering profiles . |
| 22 | Everything always seemed to be crap for actors and you just had to put up with it — while the present corruption continued . |
| 23 | They were careful to keep the bull in the same field much of the time but sometimes they would have to move him and occasionally he would get out , so one always had to be wary . |
| 24 | There always appears to be great competition for food on these waters and very often it is just a case of the more successful angler reducing the odds against catching the larger fish . |
| 25 | Perhaps Bidault , on a visit to the US , gave the best idea of French intentions when he said that Marshall Aid would make it possible for France ‘ to avoid the abandonment of French positions ’ and even where there were the generous intentions that the US had hoped for , one way or another they always seemed to be frustrated . |
| 26 | Why do they always want to be bosomy blondes is what I want to know . |
| 27 | They always appear to be happy and spend their lives trying to help others . |
| 28 | ‘ They always seem to be cheerful and full of beans … |
| 29 | ‘ They always seem to be cheerful and full of beans … |
| 30 | ‘ They always seem to be cheerful and full of beans … |