Example sentences of "[conj] i have always [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd better know now that I 've always avoided every snare set out for me , even those hidden in lush undergrowth … ’ he caressed her hair lightly , his eyes sultry , and then looked down towards the swell of her breasts ‘ … and innocent-looking hills and valleys . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 3 | ‘ You mentioned it during one of our first meetings so I 've always had a hankering to see how they 've done it . |
| 4 | Of course I 'd seen pictures and I 've always wanted a guitar like that . |
| 5 | He came in one day and asked what M C C stood for , and I 've always known a lot of useless information , so I could tell him , so I was then dispatched everyday to the erm radio shop in the High Street , to get the cricket scores in Australia . |
| 6 | Hare , whose aggregate points in first-class matches totalled 7,233 , said yesterday : ‘ It 's a challenge and I 've always enjoyed a challenge . |
| 7 | I am a trained nurse and I 've always had a weight problem . |
| 8 | Lou and I have always presented a good public face : we make a happily married couple , a busy professional pair ; she in the media — seen as a little suspect , a little too clever for her own good — he in the interpretive arts : sensitive , hard-working , dedicated : often away . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm very happy and I have always had a good relationship with the board . ’ |
| 10 | But we knew it was not , and I have always cherished the strange memory of how those women , who live at such an extreme of personal restriction , had a means of acknowledging their own desire to go free through a custom which celebrated the tides of darkness and the moon . |
| 11 | Another time I was lying in a hospital bed after a car crash — I 'd been lucky and escaped with minor injuries , but I 've always had a keen sense of drama , so I lay there feeling as though I 'd just come through the Battle of Britain . |
| 12 | I 've never been more than a dabbler but I 've always had an eye for a painter and I saw at once that he was one . |
| 13 | A lot of people say that you should n't hack young horses out on their own for months , if at all , but I 've always preferred the theory that if horses do n't learn to go out alone from the start you set up problems for later on . |
| 14 | But I 've always found the Flying V and its derivatives a devil of a job to sit down with and play . |
| 15 | Spreadsheets are primarily for analysis — or so I am constantly being told — but I have always had a problem reconciling that with what-if constructions . |
| 16 | Most historians have assumed that it was the aftermath of Prasutagus ' death alone that caused the Revolt and that the Druids were not involved , but I have always taken the view that it was the threat of their imminent extinction which concentrated all their efforts on arresting the progress of the army , with the probability of a great British victory . |
| 17 | It was exactly as I had always imagined the Dark Ages to be , and in its terrible way it was apt . |
| 18 | She 's simply being as welcoming and hospitable as I 've always heard the Taiwanese are , and trying to help me feel at home and among friends because she knows what it 's like to be a newcomer in a foreign city herself . ’ |