Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [prep] the habit " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been in the habit of buying from various ‘ alternative ’ bookshops in a desperate attempt to support all of them . |
| 2 | The law used to look with disfavor on the statute of limitations , but I have been in the habit of saying that it is one of the most sacred and indubitable principles that we have … |
| 3 | She had been in the habit of drinking five or six mugs of coffee a day ( a massive onslaught to the nervous system ) . |
| 4 | She had been in the habit of anxiety and tension for so long that she could not stop now , merely because the menace was being taken away . |
| 5 | Since her earliest golfing days , they had been in the habit of congratulating her on her latest success . |
| 6 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 7 | At the station , where she drove him , though he had been in the habit of regularly walking there , she refused to kiss him . |
| 8 | One of these , the Colt Patent Repeating Pistol , he had been in the habit of using throughout the siege and it was now stuck uncomfortably in the cummerbund he wore round his waist ; he was anxious that the others should not fall into the hands of the sepoys if the Residency were lost . |
| 9 | He had been in the habit of brooding , up here , as a child . |
| 10 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |