Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have always [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 then introduced our Sports Council Liaison Officer who has always been most helpful and had volunteered to come along and present their point of view .
2 A lifelong Conservative who has always been politically active , and who has fought this seat in the last two local elections , Margaret lives in Headington Ward , and understands , and cares about the local issues .
3 Sitting in the audience was Diana 's father , Earl Spencer , who had always been very proud of his daughter , and only too happy to tell the world so .
4 She , Aurora Jennings Blake , who had always been quite content in her own company , who indeed had positively longed for solitude on occasions , was lonely .
5 For Jean-Claude , who had always been abjectly poor , there seemed no way of escaping a hand-to-mouth existence by his own efforts : only a miracle could effect it .
6 Esther , who had always been deeply bored with Delia and had no wish whatsoever to keep in touch with her , sat quietly in the smooth , upholstered , comfortable , large toffee-brown Volvo , which smelled of dog .
7 He and Hunt — who had always been deeply interested in driver safety — worked in excellent cooperation .
8 She lay propped up in pain and wondered when it was she had begun to loathe her body — she who had always been so proud of her figure and liked to pirouette in front of the glass after stepping from her clothes , admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs , the trim concavity of her belly , the neatness of her breasts , her skin with the sculptured texture of marble , her neck slender as the stem of a wineglass , and the bound-up hair in which fire lurked and leaped .
9 Lucinda , who had always been so obedient , speaking to her mother as if good manners had gone out of fashion ?
10 No more letters for many a year now from Miss Mitford , none from Miss Trepsack , none from Mrs Jameson , who had always been so kind to her .
11 She had realized that she , who had always been so outgoing as a young singer , had been verging on the brink of obsession with her own failures , her own abilities or lack of them , with Gesner and his personal vendetta .
12 Some elderly people who have always been very flexible like being ‘ popped in on ’ without prior warning , but most people as they grow older much prefer all the events in their lives to be regular and predictable .
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