Example sentences of "she had always [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Lesley 's elder brother Dave , 34 , said last night : ‘ She had always wanted to be in uniform and had been in the Wrens .
2 ‘ But she had always wanted to be in uniform , so eventually became a policewoman .
3 She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be .
4 She had always wanted to be a boy .
5 She had always hankered to be tall and fair , like Riborg .
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