Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have always [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not at all beautiful , but even with her likeness before me I had always assumed that she must be , since she carried such conviction in her forgotten words and her enduring appearance . |
| 2 | He is a wonderful artist whom I 've always admired . |
| 3 | May I pay a tribute to the Under-Secretary , my hon. Friend the Member for Fareham ( Mr. Lloyd ) , from whom I have always had the greatest courtesy and the most enormous amount of help in dealing with constituency cases . |
| 4 | He was possibly one of the most brilliant boys ever at Halton , whom I have always claimed , if Whittle had not invented his jet engine , he certainly would have come very close in his time . |
| 5 | I I I 've always called it the E flat , |
| 6 | I I 've always assumed that that meant that it would be such a tremendous lever for the enemy to hold someone like that . |
| 7 | At the time er well I 've always through the roofing right you you come up against site fore you know site foreman general foreman clerk of works and I I 've always got on well with I can always talk to people . |
| 8 | In my experience people will forgive a lot of things , but not being beaten at their own game by someone they 've always looked upon as a caricature . ’ |
| 9 | W.C. Fields used one phrase which I 've always loved — especially after all the years I 've been married — he said , ‘ Elephants are just like women — nice to look at , but who wants to own one ? ’ |
| 10 | By comparison , on Gibson 's Flying V guitar , the bridge pickup has to sit rather high because of the effect the tune-o-matic bridge has in raising the height of the strings above the body , which I 've always thought looked and felt a little clumsy . |
| 11 | We did n't fish in the accepted sense , which I 've always thought was a ghoulish thing to do anyway . |
| 12 | During this month I led the life for which I had always yearned hunting big game on my own in the wilds of Africa ; but now I realized that this expedition had meant more to me than just the excitement of hunting . |
| 13 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
| 14 | So no bug-eyed monsters which I had always thought to be the cheapest form of science fiction . |
| 15 | If the question be ( as , in the actual state of the law , I think it is ) , whether consideration is , or is not , given in a case of this kind , by the debtor who pays down part of the debt presently due from him , for a promise by the creditor to relinquish , after certain further payments on account , the residue of the debt , I can not say that I think consideration is given , in the sense which I have always understood that word as used in our law . |
| 16 | I am sure that there has been much more scheming involved and the invasion , which I have always opposed , was the opportunity for this action to be unleased . |
| 17 | Obviously that gleam in his eye , which I have always interpreted as something completely different ( and probably libellous ) , is in fact a passionate yearning after his old job . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's all very exciting for me at the moment , here I am about to go around the world for the first time , seeing cities like New York , which I have always dreamed of seeing . |
| 19 | In several advertisements by dealers I have noticed the following genera , which I have always thought were mostly known as houseplants : |
| 20 | It took an act of will to think of cool winds on hilltops or the pattern of water-shadows over wave-carved sand — things which I have always thought epitomise clarity and freshness and helped to divert my brain from dwelling on the contents of my stomach . |
| 21 | She wrote to Jane at the start of her employment : ‘ There are two things I beg you to do : get your time each day in the fresh air and strictly limit the hours you spend on your work , which I have always had to do anyway with such a large family and it does make sense in the end . |
| 22 | In fact , the straits raised this an extra 5 per cent just before the ‘ Brothers in Arms ’ tour in recognition of the agency service which I have always provided . |
| 23 | If you choose this type of holiday a good starting point is to decide on a city that fascinates you and which you have always wanted to visit and book a package trip ( that is one in which travel , hotel , and meals are included , with some guided tours ) . |
| 24 | A and also sir , the courtesy which you have always shown to . |
| 25 | Thus she stayed on the back-benches , retained her roots in Merseyside , and fought for the people and ideals which she had always supported . |
| 26 | But when her heart actually did a little flutter to see that mouth , which she had always liked — despite its owner — turning up in laughter , she half turned from him and started to walk towards the rear entrance of the building . |
| 27 | He took her , or began to , in the direct , unsentimental manner in which she had always understood men took their whores , hurting her slightly not from any particular roughness on his part but because her body had turned dry with protest , resisting him as her supple mind did not . |
| 28 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 29 | She could throw all her considerable energy into her work , which she had always found more than fulfilling . |
| 30 | How could she separate the reality of John Latimer 's war from the thin gruel of romantic rubbish with which she had always associated these lighthearted , devil-may-care young pilots , with their positively foolhardy absence of nerves and their propensity for turning the Battle of Britain into something resembling a schoolboy jape ! |