Example sentences of "she [verb] always had " in BNC.
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1 | In the last ten years , Mrs H. tells me , she has always had a servant , because without one , social duties , cooking , and housework , even with the most up-to-date equipment , proved too exhausting . |
2 | He insists that she has always had plenty . |
3 | She has always had her own glow , ’ said Mr Kinnock . |
4 | ‘ From what you and Aubrey have told me about Alice 's life , she has always had to fend for herself . |
5 | But then she has always had money — she has never not had money . |
6 | ‘ Carolyn designed the dress as she has always had a flair for it . |
7 | She has always had this dream that I would make it to university and she will be devastated if I do n't continue , but the way I am feeling now , I do n't want to . |
8 | She 'd always had to have an imaginary life simultaneously , as the real one was inadequate . |
9 | She 'd always had good food and warm clothes and a comfortable house to live in . |
10 | She 'd always had a passionate side to her nature , she thought , suddenly making sense of her reactions to life . |
11 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
12 | She 'd always had boyfriends , although so far she had n't been tempted to engage in any serious commitment . |
13 | She may have acted impetuously , but she 'd intended no malice , and she 'd always had Kirsty 's best interests at heart . |
14 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
15 | ’ ; ‘ She had always had always been drawn to ‘ my Jews ’ ’ . |
16 | With that intuitive understanding she had always had with him , she knew exactly what he meant . |
17 | She had always had to share with at least two other people until the day she came to Lisbeg . |
18 | She had always had a vague idea that psychotherapists made you lie down on a couch and waffle on about your problems until finally , in some miraculous way , they were no longer problems , just a pain that had been gradually eased away . |
19 | She had always had grey hair , scraped back into a no-nonsense knot and wore baggy knitted suits . |
20 | She had lived a very gay life in London , when she was on the stage you know , and she had always had her parents behind her — like Pip , she had ‘ Great Expectations ’ . |
21 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
22 | She had always had pink in her cheeks and soft rose on her lips . |
23 | That was the secret she had always had to keep and had never confessed , not even to the Irish priests who stayed secretly at Roscarrock Hall . |
24 | She had always had , as she would say with that breathless half of a nervous laugh with which she met anyone 's emotions including her own , this sort of a ‘ thing ’ about Italy . |
25 | It was her old one which she had always had , and over-looked the courtyard . |
26 | Leith was busily sorting through her wardrobe , finding unexpectedly that , while she had always had an ability to make decisions , she was dithering over what to take with her to Parkwood tomorrow . |
27 | You know she never has liked village people , and she 's always had rather a squashing way towards kids . |
28 | She 's always had a smile for me , Mr Feather . " |